For me the layout Debian uses is a total no-op. But I know this is a common thing beyond Debian and where they are set in their ways so am I. I have considered external packaging.
This is also one of a few reasons why: https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-on-debian/releases/tag/continuous And: https://marketstep.github.io Have been in play and ideas of mine since a few years ago. Todo, installer with offline updater, baked in native web browser, fix quirks with pkgwrap for some packages. It’s already a reusable workflow that requires no code changes for apt packages. I need to make something similar for GNUstep apps. But for apt I go to github make a new repository called abiword, obs-audio, gimp, xpdf, and I select a template click create. A few minutes later GitHub packages everything apt installs into a self contained bundle, rewrites paths with rpath, makes a squashfs image, and publishes to a release with the same tag. Once like all the pieces are in place thats when I’d like to launch it with a couple of hundred x11 apps, and a big showcase of native ones. Simple Agenda, Oolite and others would be top of mind. The motivation for these particular experiments comes and goes as there is so much else to focus on. As far distro packaging for me though unless there is flexibility external solutions seems the only way for me. -------- Original Message -------- On Monday, 05/11/26 at 15:58 Paul Seelig <[email protected]> wrote: On 5/8/26 22:11, [email protected] wrote: > You can now grab a new release of SimpleAgenda on GitHub : > https://github.com/poroussel/simpleagenda/releases/tag/v0.48 Thanks a lot for this! Installable binary packages for amd64, arm64, and i386 built on and compatible with Debian/Trixie can be downloaded from the wmlive repo here: https://wmlive.rumbero.org/repo/pool/main/a/agenda.app/ Sadly, "compatible with Debian" unfortunately still means no libobjc2 nor ARC, for the time being. Best regards, P. Seelig -- https://fosstodon.org/@wmlive | https://wmlive.sourceforge.net
