Hunter Wittenborn

If you're fine not getting integrated into the Debian repositories themselves, [makedeb](https://makedeb.org) provides a very simplistic way to create Debian packages compared to standard Debian packaging. You could also upload...

In their defense packagecloud themselves are [recommending the apt-key approach](https://packagecloud.io/app/AtomEditor/atom/gpg#gpg-apt). Regardless, I completely agree. Exporting to a keyfile is way more secure, as the GPG key would then only be...

This last thing isn't required or anything, but just a general improvement: This line: ```sh $ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/atom-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any/ any main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/atom.list' ``` could...

All good! Sounds great then too.

Actually, on second though now, it would probably be a better idea to make that a separate PR. If the people on the Atom team end up not wanting to...

If you're familiar with Bash scripting [makedeb](https://makedeb.org) (a personal project) should make the process pretty straightforward, and you'd likely only need to keep a single file in this repository for...

If you want a quick solution from the AUR package, [makedeb](https://makedeb.org) (a personal project) could work quite well.

@Schmiddiii: Since you use Arch Linux, [makedeb](https://makedeb.org) could probably work quite well, as it uses the same PKGBUILD format seen for their packaging format. If need be, I could help...

> An installable package is not so hard to create but without the metadata a package can carry within it I do not see that much of a benefit over...

> Does makedeb create separate packages for each dependency? It can if you so choose to - you'd need to package each dependency separately, though nothing is stopping you from...