Hello,

this morning I made a Debian package for metamath and uploaded it to
Debian. The package is currently in the so-called NEW queue, where from
it will have to be manually approved before actually entering Debian
(this is a standard procedure for all new Debian packages).

Once approved, it will be available first in the development versions of
Debian (called "unstable" and "testing") and, unless a grave bug is
found that cannot be fixed (and I trust this won't happen), will be
released with the upcoming Debian bullseye. It won't be fast, Debian
release cycles are notoriously veeeery long (order of one or two years).
That means that users of Debian bullseye will be able to have metamath
ready for use just using the command "apt install metamath". In due time
(actually, probably earlier than in Debian) the same package will also
land in Ubuntu, as most Ubuntu packages are just inherited from Debian.

For the moment I just packaged the program, but I am going to build
another package with the most prominent databases, including of course
set.mm.

There is a kind request that I would like to make to Norman or to
anybody who manages the metamath-exe repository: could you please make
tags for Metamath releases? This makes it possible for Debian tools to
automatically detect when a new release is available and trigger a light
on my dashboard. This is as simple as using these commands each time you
want to publish a new release:

  git commit -m'Release version 0.1234.'
  git tag v0.1234
  git push
  git push --tags

The tags will be published on GitHub[1] and will be available for
automatically knowing which versions are available and how to get a
specific version.

 [1] https://github.com/metamath/metamath-exe/releases

Thanks, Giovanni.
-- 
Giovanni Mascellani <[email protected]>
Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles

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