make a releases for debian based distros

[FridayCandour]

it will be cool our bandwhich to be easily available for debian based distros. will be glad if you guys can make it work.

[cyqsimon]

Personally, I believe packaging work for any specific distro should be offloaded to the users/maintainers of that distro. If you take a look at our Repology packaging status:

All of them without exception are built and served by a third party. And there are good reasons to do it this way too, which I'm not going to get into details here.

It's a real shame that Debian-based distros typically neither have a centralised userscript repository (like the AUR) or a community build service (like Fedora COPR). So I would suggest you inquire your distro's maintainers first. Meanwhile I'll keep this issue open; please let me know how that goes.

[cyqsimon]

And just to make it clear, I am willing to make an exception for Debian specifically due to its ubiquity, but only as a last resort after exploring other alternatives (which I believe are objectively better).

I've recently looked into how Debian packaging works in pouriyajamshidi/tcping#245 and found it refreshingly simple. So technically it's not that difficult; I just want to avoid taking on downstream maintenance duty unnecessarily.

[FridayCandour]

I now understand why this wasn't available in the first place. However, am not skilled in Linux but I will be glad the team can make it happen, I have enough programming knowledge to help if required. Plus I haven't communicated with any Debian team but I believe this can work.

bandwhich for Debian.