I have some cool projects that I use such as zellij and yazi that I use but aren’t in the debian repos, I would like to attempt to package them myself, is there any guides on how to do such? were could I get some help learning how to package things?

  • hobata@lemmy.ml
    2·
    22 days ago

    Well, that’s a bit off topic, but may I ask why you want to do that? I can’t imagine a scenario (for me as a single user) that would exceed the scope of checkinstall.

    • dan@upvote.au
      5·
      22 days ago

      For me, I like knowing that apt update && apt upgrade will upgrade everything, instead of having to remember about all the special cases.

      On servers, I try to install everything from either Debian packages or Docker containers, to make upgrading simpler.

      • hobata@lemmy.ml
        1·
        21 days ago

        But for apt update && apt upgrade to work, the stuff must be maintained and packaged by somebody.

    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      22 days ago

      One reason might be to install the same package over multiple machines. Also make removal easier. It can also be used to keep track of checksums for security purposes.