been experimenting deb packaging

[RadND]

Package using the latest commit ( 12/6/2025)
Unsure if it really works, use at your own risk (if any)

oversteer.tar.gz

[RadND]

@Kimplul Would you like to give it a try? I looked through the issues and among them you seem to be the only Debian user still active on GitHub.

[Kimplul]

[..] the only Debian user still active on GitHub.

Heh, seems like a dubious honor.

In any case, .deb seems to work fine. I tried cleaning up the previous installation as well as I could, removing udev rules and so on, so hopefully I tested it well enough.

[berarma]

I also use Debian. Could you make a PR? I'll test it when I can. Thanks.

[RadND]

No.
The only packaging workflow I knew clearly separated developing and packaging.It said that if there is already a /debian dir in upstream it should be droped before packaging. To avoid making hassle for packager (might-exist) later on. It's best not to modify code at here
Besides I prefer to put my code in codeberg now. Will leave a link here later after trying improving packaging files

[berarma]

No.
The only packaging workflow I knew clearly separated developing and packaging.It said that if there is already a /debian dir in upstream it should be droped before packaging. To avoid making hassle for packager (might-exist) later on. It's best not to modify code at here
Besides I prefer to put my code in codeberg now. Will leave a link here later after trying improving packaging files

I don't think dropping a directory is too much hassle but I'm OK with that.

[RadND]

I don't think dropping a directory is too much hassle but I'm OK with that.

It really would be if someone is using the same packaging workflow as me.
Anything from upstream can only be modified through patches, and patches are stored in /debian/patch or something. So try to remove the upstream's /debian would require modify /debian, you can see that someone will running into a loop hole.
Packaging manual explains how to handle this but I don't quite remember how. In any case, I want to avoid this.

[RadND]

Done.