Please provide an APT repository

[geor-g]

Well, the title tells it all.

Otherwise, unless I'm missing something (?), it's a bit cumbersome to pull in new versions, as one has to parse the website, download the .deb and install it afterwards.

[EchedelleLR]

Maybe using OpenSUSE Build Service like Ungoogled Chromium repos could help a lot. You can maintain repos for different distros including APT one for Debian and Ubuntu as the example I gave...

[franck-x]

Here is a -hacky but working- script to verify if installed version is the latest version available, and if not, download and install the .deb file.

May need to be updated to your need, and also if website template change.

#!/bin/bash

regex="(VERSION_DESKTOP = \")(.*)(\" %})"
url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deltachat/deltachat-pages/master/_includes/download-boxes.html'
dom="`wget -qO- $url`"
installedVersion="`dpkg-query --showformat='${Version}' --show deltachat-desktop`"

if [[ $dom =~ $regex ]]
then
	latestVersion="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
	echo "installed version: ${installedVersion}"
	echo "latest version: ${latestVersion}"

	if [[ ${installedVersion} != ${latestVersion} ]]
	then
		deburl="https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v${latestVersion}/deltachat-desktop_${latestVersion}_amd64.deb"
		echo "will download: $deburl"

		wget -O /tmp/deltachat.deb $deburl
		sudo dpkg -i /tmp/deltachat.deb
	else
		echo "latest version already installed"
	fi
else
	echo "error fetching latest version"
fi

[rafael2k]

I added 1.34.1 here: http://packages.hermes.radio/ Plan to keep it to the latest version (amd64 only for now).