Enhance CI Workflow: Automate .deb Package Build and Release for Multiple Distributions

[hacksysteam]

Overview

This pull request introduces enhancements to the CI/CD pipeline by automating the build process of .deb packages for scrcpy across multiple Linux distributions. The updated GitHub Actions workflow builds the packages and publishes them as assets to a GitHub release, streamlining the release process and ensuring consistent delivery of the latest builds to users.

Changes

• Implemented a matrix strategy in the GitHub Actions workflow to build scrcpy for Debian Bullseye, Bookworm, and Ubuntu Focal.
• Configured caching for APT packages and Gradle dependencies to speed up the build process.
• Added steps to automatically create a GitHub release with the commit hash as a tag and upload the built .deb packages to this release.

Testing

The updated workflow has been tested in a fork of the repository, where it successfully built .deb packages and published them to a release. The packages were then downloaded and tested in their respective distributions to confirm their integrity and functionality.

This still might need some more changes, feel free to comment.

Thanks

[rom1v]

Thank you. That looks cool 👍

I really need to take the time to read the doc about GitHub actions (my CI knowledge is very limited). By the way, I would like to also build the Windows releases (just executing ./release.sh from the CI), and maybe to build macOS binaries too (later). There were other PR for that in the past, but IIRC there were always unsolved problems for me.

I have many things to do on my TODO list before that, but that would be great to publish .deb with scrvpy releases 👍

[rom1v]

This adds a dependency from a "random" user in the process, doesn't it? Ditto below.

[hacksysteam]

Github actions allow you to use community actions. The one you highlighted uses ncipollo/release-action@v1 to create a release.

You can check the release here: https://github.com/hacksysteam/scrcpy/releases
The workflow file was designed to just create 1 release per push, we can make changes and adapt this to the project requirements. I just tested the bookworm deb file and it works, both server and app are included in the same deb file.

[hacksysteam]

I'll get it fixed.

[1fexd]

Looking forward to this PR being merged, I'm running Mint 21.3 (based on Ubuntu 22) and had a lot of issues with building due the ffmpeg/libavcodec version being very outdated - just forked this PR, added focal, started the action and now it works - thanks!