Debian Bug report logs - #854902
ITP: appimagekit -- package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based distributions

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: ITP: appimagekit -- package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based distributions

Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 23:24:10 +0530

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>

* Package name    : appimagekit
  Version         : git
  Upstream Author : Simon Peter
* URL             : https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/
* License         : MIT/X
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based distributions

Using AppImageKit you can package desktop applications as AppImages
that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS,
Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and derivatives.

The AppImage format is a format for packaging applications in a way
that allows them to run on a variety of different target systems
(base operating systems, distributions) without further modification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage

AppImageKit is a concrete implementation of the AppImage format and
provides tools such as appimagetool and appimaged for conveniently
handling AppImages.

appimagetool uses a next-generation AppImage format based on squashfs
and embeds a runtime for it. appimaged is a daemon that handles
registering and unregistering AppImages with the system (e.g., menu
entries, icons, MIME types, binary delta updates, and such).

Flatpak and Snaps solve similar problems. AppImageKit is comparatively a
very simplistic approach.
This will be maintained under collab-maint

Message #10 received at 854902@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Scarlett Clark <sgclarkkde@gmail.com>

To: 854902@bugs.debian.org

Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 05:55:48 -0700

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What is the status on this packaging?
I can work on it, if you have stopped.
Thanks,
Scarlett

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Message #15 received at 854902@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>

To: Scarlett Clark <sgclarkkde@gmail.com>, 854902@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#854902:

Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 15:05:22 +0545

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On Tue, 2018-05-15 at 05:55 -0700, Scarlett Clark wrote:
> What is the status on this packaging?

IIRC, There were some dependencies that appimage was embedding. We (Me
and AppImage Lead) worked on getting some of it worked out. There were
some local patches for foreign submodules, I think we pushed them
upstream.

Then, there was a fuse archive project. I don't recollect the name now.
That was needed to be packaged for Debian.

Then, there were some major issues with the way upstream had defined
the build. That is where I left off last.

> I can work on it, if you have stopped.

Please do so. Because since then, a lot has changed for me and I don't
really have the time now (and in the near future) to work on it.

Thanks,
Ritesh

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System

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