Hi all, for anyone who wants to try out the latest development version of Amarok on Debian 11 (Bullseye) or Debian Sid, you may use these unofficial and experimental apt repositories [1]. Packages are rebuilt every night from the upstream master branch [2] with Gitlab CI [3].
For that, I forked Amarok on GitHub [10] and do mirror it to Gitlab [4] for CI. There you will also find a script [5] which helps building the Amarok package manually if you do not want to use a third-party apt repository. On Ubuntu, one can use the apt repositories of Pedro de Carvalho Gomes [12] or Joseph Yasi [6]. Compared to Joseph's and previous official packages from Debian, I did not break down Amarok into several packages [7]. My apt repositories provide a single package named "amarok" which contains everything from upstream. Package dependencies have been updated to the latest CMakeLists.txt [8] from upstream. Nightly rebuilds will fail when this file changes, so I will be notified automatically by Gitlab CI and will (hopefully be able to) update package dependencies. The Gitlab CI pipeline [3] is based on Debian's Salsa CI pipeline [9] and can be reused to build and publish other packages to Gitlab Pages as well. In future, GitLab Pages could be replaced with GitLab's native apt repositories once this feature is generally available [11]. Best, Jakob [1] https://jakobmeng.gitlab.io/debian-package-amarok/ [2] https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok.git [3] https://gitlab.com/jakobmeng/debian-package-amarok/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/.gitlab-ci.yml [4] https://gitlab.com/jakobmeng/debian-package-amarok/ [5] https://gitlab.com/jakobmeng/debian-package-amarok/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/maintain [6] https://launchpad.net/~joe-yasi/+archive/ubuntu/amarok-kde5 [7] http://ppa.launchpad.net/joe-yasi/amarok-kde5/ubuntu/pool/main/a/amarok/ [8] https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt [9] https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/ [10] https://github.com/JM1/debian-package-amarok [11] https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/6057 [12] https://launchpad.net/~pgomes/+archive/ubuntu/amarok
