Debian packaging

[samcday]

closes #67

This pulls in the DebianOnMobile packaging, and also absorbs the latest round of patches Arnaud had to apply to clean up my mess 😅

[agx]

I wonder if it wouldn't be more suitable to require network access and fetch things via Cargo? Otherwise it is very easy to get entangled in package transitions in Debian (or needing to patch around older versions, as you can see from the patches). (This can of course be switched later on later on as well)

In e.g. xdg-desktop-portal-phosh we do the same: use Cargo + net access in CI and use packaged crates when uploading to Debian

[samcday]

I wonder if it wouldn't be more suitable to require network access and fetch things via Cargo? Otherwise it is very easy to get entangled in package transitions in Debian (or needing to patch around older versions, as you can see from the patches). (This can of course be switched later on later on as well)

Perfect, this is much easier, thanks!

Although now the problem is, it seems that a lot of the transitive deps I need are tied up in the various librust- packages. e.g librust-libphosh-sys-dev pulls in stuff like librust-pango-sys-dev, which then finally strings along libpango1.0-dev

If I do a apt install -t trixie-nightly libphosh-dev, I end up in this situation:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS=1 pkg-config --libs --cflags libphosh-0.45 libphosh-0.45
Package libcallaudio-0.1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcallaudio-0.1.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'libcallaudio-0.1', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libpulse', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libpulse-mainloop-glib', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'appstream', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libsoup-3.0', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'gcr-3', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'gmobile', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'gnome-bluetooth-3.0', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'gnome-desktop-3.0', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'gudev-1.0', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libfeedback-0.0', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libnm', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'polkit-agent-1', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'mm-glib', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libsecret-1', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'upower-glib', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libcallaudio-0.1', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libpulse', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libpulse-mainloop-glib', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'appstream', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libsoup-3.0', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'gcr-3', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'gmobile', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'gnome-bluetooth-3.0', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'gnome-desktop-3.0', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'gudev-1.0', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libfeedback-0.0', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libnm', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'polkit-agent-1', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'mm-glib', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'libsecret-1', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found
Package 'upower-glib', required by 'libphosh-0.45', not found

Any suggestions here? I suspect you'll see this question and answer long before I figure this out myself 😅

[samcday]

For now I'm just cargo-culting all of Phosh's build-deps. I guess keeping this list in sync won't be too onerous. Would still love to know if there's a better way to do this though :)

[agx]

I wouldn't know of a better way. It's usually a matter of listing all the non-rust deps so the crates can be built. so if you build-depend on libphosh-0.45-dev | libphosh-dev most of it should get pulled in transitive already. (Now that we target a stable API we can rename libphosh-dev in phosh upstream too, we basically didn't do it to avoid the renaming with each release).

[samcday]

Hmph, well... Building the .deb in CI is failing in irritating ways that I cannot reproduce locally. So much for consistent build environments with containers... Sigh.

What I have so far builds cleanly in a pristine debian:sid container, and in a pristine debian:trixie container with Phosh nightly repo.

I'm going to just give up on the GHA workflow for now and open a follow-up issue to track that. If it's getting built regularly in phosh-debs maybe I don't care about building it here anyway 🤔

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