Restore GitHub Action for building Debian package (#1065)

* Restore GitHub Action for building Debian package

* Use Ubuntu 24.04

* Update dependencies for github action for deb package

* debhelper-compat does not work with >=

* pull submodules

* Update upload-artifact version

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Co-authored-by: Archisman Panigrahi <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/deb.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# This is a basic workflow to help you get started with Actions
+
+name: Build Debian Package
+
+# Controls when the action will run. 
+on:
+  # Triggers the workflow on push or pull request events but only for the master branch
+  push:
+    branches: [ gtk4 ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ gtk4 ]
+
+  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
+jobs:
+  # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
+  build:
+    # The type of runner that the job will run on
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+
+    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
+    steps:
+      # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          submodules: 'true'
+
+      - run: sudo apt install build-essential debhelper meson gettext pkg-config libglib2.0-dev gjs appstream libgjs-dev libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev desktop-file-utils
+      - run: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc
+      - run: mv ../*.deb .
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: Debian Package
+          path: "*.deb"

debian/control

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: foliate
 Section: gnome
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: John Factotum <[email protected]>
-Build-Depends: debhelper-compat(=10),
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat(=13),
 	gettext,
 	meson (>= 0.59),
 	pkg-config,