I figure I ought to post an update here. It's not looking good. There is a very nifty tool for repackaging node.js packages for Debian (shockingly called npm2deb), however, it assumes upstream uploaded their package to the npm registry. The bitwarden upstream did not, as it is a GUI application, and so they didn't know they even could. They did not want to, however.
I then patched npm2deb to handle packages that were only available as tarballs (which I was quite proud of). Though those changes have not yet been merged in, they worked just fine-which was when I ran into the showstopper. Bitwarden has a long chain of dependencies, as it is an application built on Angular.js and Electron.js. npm2deb gave a list of 28 separate packages. Although they are all node packages, and I am sure npm2deb is up to the task, I am not sure if I could, or should, add them all. I pasted the relevant section of npm2deb output bellow. If someone could aid me in packaging and maintaining the dependent packages, I'd be much more confident in continuing. But I don't want to wait for my 29th package to get one that I actually use. (Obviously, many of these may be prepackaged, and just not be known to npm2deb by their Debian name. But there is a mechanism that attempts to solve that (with a list that converts between them), and I assume it is somewhat up-to-date. Additionally, I did manually attempt to find them with apt, and failed.) [error] @angular/animations: dependency node-@angular/animations not in debian [error] @angular/cdk: dependency node-@angular/cdk not in debian [error] @angular/common: dependency node-@angular/common not in debian [error] @angular/compiler: dependency node-@angular/compiler not in debian [error] @angular/core: dependency node-@angular/core not in debian [error] @angular/forms: dependency node-@angular/forms not in debian [error] @angular/platform-browser: dependency node-@angular/platform -browser not in debian [error] @angular/platform-browser-dynamic: dependency node-@angular/ platform-browser-dynamic not in debian [error] @angular/router: dependency node-@angular/router not in debian [error] @angular/upgrade: dependency node-@angular/upgrade not in debian [error] @microsoft/signalr: dependency node-@microsoft/signalr not in debian [error] @microsoft/signalr-protocol-msgpack: dependency node-@microsoft/signalr-protocol-msgpack not in debian [error] @nodert-win10-rs4/windows.security.credentials.ui: dependency node-@nodert-win10-rs4/windows.security.credentials.ui not in debian [error] angular2-toaster: dependency node-angular2-toaster not in debian [error] angulartics2: dependency node-angulartics2 not in debian [error] big-integer: dependency node-big-integer not in debian [error] desktop-idle: dependency node-desktop-idle not in debian [error] duo_web_sdk: dependency node-duo_web_sdk not in debian [error] electron-log: dependency node-electron-log not in debian [error] electron-store: dependency node-electron-store not in debian [error] electron-updater: dependency node-electron-updater not in debian [error] keytar: dependency node-keytar not in debian [error] nord: dependency node-nord not in debian [error] papaparse: dependency node-papaparse not in debian [error] rxjs: dependency node-rxjs not in debian [error] sweetalert2: dependency node-sweetalert2 not in debian [error] zone.js: dependency node-zone.js not in debian [error] zxcvbn: dependency node-zxcvbn not in debian
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