Add .deb / APT / PPA support to Packages

[asasine]

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Summary

I'd like to be able to create Debian binary packages and upload them to GitHub Packages.

Intended Outcome

Users can upload Debian binary packages (*.deb) to GitHub Packages and add a repo's package feed as a custom APT source.

How could it work?

1. The user uploads a Debian binary package to GitHub Packages, possible through a step in GitHub Actions.

2. The user adds the GitHub Packages registry to their APT sources on their Debian machine:

   # /etc/apt/sources.list.d/my-github-packages.list
   deb https://apt.pkg.github.com/<username>/<repo> stable main
   

3. The user installs packages from this new source using conventional commands:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install my-github-package

Bonus features

Authentication can be done inline to the APT source with a PAT.

# /etc/apt/sources.list.d/my-github-packages.list
deb https://<username>:<PAT>@apt.pkg.github.com/<username>/<repo> stable main

Instructions could point out the use of apt_auth.conf(5) to separate secrets from the APT source lists.

Authentication could also be done with SSH-based sources

# /etc/apt/sources.list.d/my-github-packages.list
deb ssh://<username>@apt.pkg.github.com/<username>/<repo> stable main

[metux]

I'm looking for the same, too.

[mehdiben7]

This would be awesome ! If that can help Github developpers, I know that Gitea already supports it (and Gitea is open source). Possibily also Gitlab. I would love to be able to do the same on Github

[danielsiegl]

I also want this

[MickaelOnTheWave]

Me too

[asasine]

GitHub Packages does not have the ability to be an APT repo source. Even if you have permissions on your machine to update the APT repo sources, you cannot point it towards GitHub Packages.