Added deb to cargo.toml

[euri10]

Greetings, this is a draft PR to check if there would be some interest in having the deb meta in the cargo.toml

The reason I'm proposing this is the following, I install i3status-rs as a deb package for each release. In order to do that I run this small build.sh script, like ./build.sh -v 0.20.6 for instance. after I patched my fork with the added contents of that PR.

So having it in the base repo would alleviate the manual steps of having to patch it on my fork :)

No worries if that doesn't land, and thanks for the amazing bar !

#! /usr/bin/env bash

set -eux

IMAGE="debian:bullseye-slim"
TARGET="$(dirname "$0" | xargs realpath)"
VERSION="v0.21.1"

while getopts "v:i:h" opt
do
    case "$opt" in
        v)
            VERSION="$OPTARG"
            ;;
        h)
            echo "Usage: $0 [-i image] [-v version]"
            exit 0
            ;;
        *)
            exit 1
            ;;
    esac
done

main() {
	docker build --progress=plain -t i3status-build-$$ --build-arg VERSION=$VERSION .
	docker create --name i3status i3status-build-$$
	docker cp i3status:/target/i3status-rust_${VERSION}_amd64.deb "$TARGET" 
	docker rm i3status
}

main

FROM rust:1.58-slim-bullseye
ARG VERSION
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
	apt-get update && \
	apt-get install -y git librust-libdbus-sys-dev libssl-dev libpulse-dev && \
	apt-get -y clean && \
	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
RUN cargo install cargo-deb
RUN git clone -b v$VERSION.deb https://github.com/euri10/i3status-rust.git && \
	cd i3status-rust
WORKDIR /i3status-rust
RUN cargo deb -- --features=maildir
RUN mkdir /target && cp /i3status-rust/target/debian/*.deb /target

[cfsmp3]

Looks like there's some work for .deb going on that might be nice to be unified.

I also have a .deb packager, but cargo deb creates a binary package, not a source package, which is not so useful for debian-derived distros (or debian itself).

https://github.com/cfsmp3/i3status-rust-docker-from-scratch

[ammgws]

@euri10 Have you had a look at the discussion in https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust/issues/431? If so how does this fit in with what's been tried so far?

[nivex]

#431 talks about getting the package into Debian proper. While this would be ideal, I favor having the metadata in Cargo.toml as well. This would enable me (or any other user) to download a release tarball and invoke cargo deb and have a package that can be managed locally.

There have been some changes since this was proposed. Here's the added bits I use for 0.30.7:

[package.metadata.deb]
name = "i3status-rust"
extended-description = """\
Provides provides a way to display 'blocks' of system information (time, \
battery status, volume, etc) on the i3 (https://i3wm.org/) bar.
.
Also compatible with Sway (http://swaywm.org/).
.
For a list of available blocks, see the block documentation in \
usr/share/docs/i3status-rust/blocks.md."""
license-file = ["LICENSE", "0"]
depends = "$auto, libdbus-1-3 (>=1.6), libpulse0"
section = "utils"
priority = "optional"
assets = [
    ["target/release/i3status-rs", "usr/bin/", "755"],
    ["README.md", "usr/share/doc/i3status-rust/README", "644"],
    ["examples/*", "usr/share/doc/i3status-rust/examples/", "644"],
    ["examples/scripts/*", "usr/share/doc/i3status-rust/examples/scripts/", "644"],
    ["files/icons/*", "usr/share/i3status-rust/icons/", "644"],
    ["files/themes/*", "usr/share/i3status-rust/themes/", "644"],
    ["man/i3status-rs.1", "usr/share/man/man1/", "644"]
]