UPDATE Since 2020-04-13, Polybar is available in Debian Unstable.

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Debian Package for Polybar

This repository contains the source to build a Debian package for Polybar.

Usage

If you have Docker, the easiest way to build the package is using the build-in-container.sh script:

$ ./build-in-container.sh

By default, it builds a package for Polybar 3.4.1 in Debian Buster.

You can change the Docker image with -i, and the version with -v. For example, to build the current master in Ubuntu 19.04, use the following command:

$ ./build-in-container.sh -i ubuntu:19.04 -v master

If you change the version, you should update the debian/changelog file, so the package is generated with the correct version.

After some minutes, the directory target contains the .deb files that you can install:

$ sudo dpkg -i target/polybar_3.4.1-1_amd64.deb

$ sudo apt-get -f install   # Only is any package is missing

New release

To publish a new release:

• Change the default value for VERSION in build.sh and build-in-container.sh.
• Add a new entry in debian/changelog.
• Create a new tag with the version for the Debian package.

When the tag is uploaded, the packages are built and uploaded to a new release in the GitHub repository.