Packaging BiblioteQ in other Linux formats.

[Nerdy-boi]

The project would be much better in my opinion of the developers would publish either a tarball, or packacge in either flatpak or appimage for us that dont run debian based linux systems.

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Which developers?

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The releases include source files. I could create a bundle with the binary without the libraries or with the libraries but that's a lot of work because I'd have to include every single dependency. This would not guarantee that the executable would work on your system.

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I grow tired of creating release files for people. If you're interested in BQ, you should spend your time building it and / or request that your distribution adopt it. :) The expectation that volunteers of free software should also volunteer their time to create files for every distribution is absurd. I don't have a factory of release engineers.

[FriedrichFroebel]

Source packages are already available as tarballs, created automatically by GitHub on each release.

Flatpak or AppImage packages are distribution-independent as far as I am aware, as they bundle the required runtime as well. As far as I am aware, lots of other projects have release automations to automatically build the desired releases through continuous integration (CI), with GitHub already providing such support through its own GitHub Actions. Once setup, it should (at least in theory) not require much maintenance. This would avoid the current manual build process for at least the most common targets (and if I remember correctly, this has been discussed briefly in another issue). And yes, another alternative would be to maintain actual system packages (through a PPA (usually pre-built packages) or through the AUR package index (usually source-based packages) for example), which does not necessarily has to be done by you as the actual developer, but by interested users/maintainers.

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Should be a ticket instead of a discussion.

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For a single library, libyaz.

objdump -p ./BiblioteQ | grep NEEDED
NEEDED libyaz.so.5
NEEDED libQt5PrintSupport.so.5
NEEDED libQt5Widgets.so.5
NEEDED libQt5Gui.so.5
NEEDED libQt5Network.so.5
NEEDED libQt5Sql.so.5
NEEDED libQt5Core.so.5
NEEDED libstdc++.so.6
NEEDED libgcc_s.so.1
NEEDED libc.so.6
objdump -p /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libyaz.so.5 | grep NEEDED
NEEDED libgnutls.so.30
NEEDED libwrap.so.0
NEEDED libexslt.so.0
NEEDED libxslt.so.1
NEEDED libxml2.so.2
NEEDED libc.so.6
objdump -p /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30 | grep NEEDED
NEEDED libp11-kit.so.0
NEEDED libidn2.so.0
NEEDED libunistring.so.2
NEEDED libtasn1.so.6
NEEDED libnettle.so.8
NEEDED libhogweed.so.6
NEEDED libgmp.so.10
NEEDED libc.so.6
NEEDED ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

This request doesn't have a simple solution.

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ldd ./BiblioteQ
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc1e1f6000)
libyaz.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libyaz.so.5 (0x00007f67bfe48000)
libQt5PrintSupport.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5PrintSupport.so.5 (0x00007f67bfdd0000)
libQt5Widgets.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5 (0x00007f67bf70f000)
libQt5Gui.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5 (0x00007f67bf031000)
libQt5Network.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Network.so.5 (0x00007f67bee80000)
libQt5Sql.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Sql.so.5 (0x00007f67bee3b000)
libQt5Core.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5 (0x00007f67be8dc000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f67be6b2000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f67be692000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f67be46a000)
libgnutls.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30 (0x00007f67be27f000)
libwrap.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwrap.so.0 (0x00007f67be271000)
libexslt.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexslt.so.0 (0x00007f67be258000)
libxslt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxslt.so.1 (0x00007f67be216000)
libxml2.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007f67be034000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f67bdf4d000)
libGL.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0x00007f67bdec6000)
libpng16.so.16 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007f67bde89000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f67bde6d000)
libharfbuzz.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007f67bdd9e000)
libmd4c.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmd4c.so.0 (0x00007f67bdd8c000)
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007f67bdd38000)
libdouble-conversion.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdouble-conversion.so.3 (0x00007f67bdd21000)
libicui18n.so.70 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicui18n.so.70 (0x00007f67bd9f2000)
libicuuc.so.70 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.70 (0x00007f67bd7f7000)
libpcre2-16.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-16.so.0 (0x00007f67bd76d000)
libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f67bd69e000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f67bd564000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f67c063a000)
libp11-kit.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libp11-kit.so.0 (0x00007f67bd427000)
libidn2.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libidn2.so.0 (0x00007f67bd406000)
libunistring.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libunistring.so.2 (0x00007f67bd25c000)
libtasn1.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtasn1.so.6 (0x00007f67bd244000)
libnettle.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnettle.so.8 (0x00007f67bd1fe000)
libhogweed.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhogweed.so.6 (0x00007f67bd1b6000)
libgmp.so.10 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 (0x00007f67bd132000)
libnsl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnsl.so.2 (0x00007f67bd118000)
libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f67bcfda000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f67bcfaf000)
libGLdispatch.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 (0x00007f67bcef7000)
libGLX.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so.0 (0x00007f67bcec1000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f67bcdf9000)
libgraphite2.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007f67bcdd2000)
libkrb5.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00007f67bcd07000)
libk5crypto.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00007f67bccd8000)
libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00007f67bccd2000)
libkrb5support.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00007f67bccc2000)
libicudata.so.70 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.70 (0x00007f67bb0a4000)
libpcre.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007f67bb02e000)
libffi.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.8 (0x00007f67bb021000)
libtirpc.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtirpc.so.3 (0x00007f67baff3000)
libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f67bafcb000)
libX11.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f67bae8b000)
libbrotlidec.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbrotlidec.so.1 (0x00007f67bae7d000)
libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x00007f67bae76000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f67bae62000)
libxcb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f67bae36000)
libbrotlicommon.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbrotlicommon.so.1 (0x00007f67bae13000)
libXau.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f67bae0d000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f67bae05000)
libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007f67baded000)
libmd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0 (0x00007f67badde000)

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