Debian Multi-Architecture Package Builder

Version updated for https://github.com/ranjithrajv/debian-multiarch-builder to version v.0.1a23.

  • This action is used across all versions by ? repositories.

Action Type

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Action Summary

This GitHub Action simplifies the process of building Debian packages across multiple architectures from upstream releases. It supports auto-discovery and interactive setup wizards, reducing manual configuration overhead. The action provides built-in Lintian integration for quality assurance and secure checksum verification for all downloads. With 12+ pre-built templates for popular projects, it offers quick and reliable package builds for various programming languages and environments.

What’s Changed

Added

  • Automatic suite retirement: the builder now skips producing .deb packages for any distribution whose lts_support_ends (system.yaml) has passed, even if a package.yaml explicitly lists it. A missing/null date (forky, sid) always passes through unaffected.

Fixed

  • Default debian_distributions parsing dropped literal “-” tokens into the build list — yq’s block-list rendering of the fallback array wasn’t stripped by the old tr -d '[],"', so every package.yaml that doesn’t set debian_distributions itself (24 of 25 repos in the fleet) has been building with a bogus “-” pseudo-distribution mixed in. Fixed by querying the array’s elements directly instead of the array itself.