deb/rpm packages

[BloodyIron]

I'm pretty sure this tool is going to address my middle-click paste bother stuff, but building tools from source of this nature is a no-go for my Linux space. My package manager needs to be aware of all software in the environment, and building from source like this breaks that.

So could we please (at some point?) get deb and rpm packages for this lovely too please? A repo/ppa would be great too (or upstream even???) but at a minimum deb/rpm (I care about deb personally) packaging at a minimum would mean I actually use this tool.

Hope it's possible! Thanks! :D

[Jackenmen]

I have one here for Ubuntu 22.04: https://launchpad.net/~jackenmen/+archive/ubuntu/xmousepasteblock
It's for personal use so I won't build it for anything but jammy until I move to 24.04 once that becomes available.
It's possible that it works on other systems regardless though, I just haven't checked.

[BloodyIron]

That's certainly appreciated, but I was hoping we could get a package/repo from the original devs to provide confidence in supply chain quality.

Either way thanks for chiming in and pointing it out! :)

[Jackenmen]

Understandable but I figured I'll provide you with a link since it is not very likely that this repository becomes active after 1.5 years of inactivity, with the last commit making the program not work at all.

Either way, you can use what I linked to build an installable deb file or ppa repository yourself, then you get to have it managed by a package manager (which is actually the reason I chose to make that ppa).
Here's the link to that repo on GitHub: https://github.com/Jackenmen/xmousepasteblock-debian
After cloning it, you can run:

gbp buildpackage --git-builder='debuild -S' --git-pristine-tar --git-debian-branch=master

to build source package and then run:

cd ..
dput ppa:username/repo-name xmousepasteblock_1.3-3+jackenmen_source.changes

to push it to launchpad (you'll need to have launchpad account set up with gpg key + a created repo)

[BloodyIron]

Ahh, well thanks! :)

[milaq]

Tagged this as future enhancement