Github Action to Build a Deb Package

This is a GitHub Action that will build a Debian package (.deb file) for Debian or Ubuntu.

The Debian or Ubuntu distribution is specified using the action tag/version. For example, focal-v1 and bionic-v will build a package for Ubuntu Focal (21.04) and Ubuntu Bionic (18.04) respectively.

Usage

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build-deb:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - uses: kanaka/build-dpkg@focal-v1
        id: build
        with:
          args: --unsigned-source --unsigned-changes

      - name: Release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
        with:
          files: |
            mypkg_*
            mypkg-*

This Action wraps the dpkg-buildpackage command. To use it, you must have a debian directory at the top of your repository, with all the files that dpkg-buildpackage expects.

This Action does the following things inside a Docker container:

1. Call mk-build-deps to ensure that the build dependencies defined the debian/control file are installed in the Docker image.
2. Call dpkg-buildpackage with whatever arguments are passed to the args input in the step definition.
3. Move the resulting *.deb files into the artifacts/ directory in your repository, so that other GitHub Actions steps can process them futher.