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Re:An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for... by AkshatM on Sunday August 29, 2021 @12:50PM (#28348297)
For Debian-based distros, just use `dpkg-deb` to bundle your executables into a `deb` and distribute the `deb`. It takes one line to do this.
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Re:An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for... by smcameron on Sunday August 29, 2021 @12:53PM (#28348345)
If it's a one liner, send me a patch.

BTW, there's a hell of a lot more to package up than just a few executables.

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Re:An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for... by smcameron on Sunday August 29, 2021 @12:57PM (#28348377)
Also, there's already debian packaging stuff: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/tree/maste...

But I'm not really too interested in distributing packages that will just get out of date.

"git pull; make" is easier anyway.

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Re:An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for... by smcameron on Sunday August 29, 2021 @08:31PM (#28351785)
And I'm pretty sure that debian stuff is out of date, because I switched from gtk to sdl2 some time ago, but the control file still mentions gtk. But I never use this debian stuff, so I didn't notice until now. Perhaps someone will fix it.
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