* feat(packaging): build thin .deb and .rpm with nfpm and attach them to releases
Adds packaging/native: an nfpm config that produces a .deb and an .rpm
from the release wheel. The packages stay thin - Python, GTK, PyGObject
and the typelibs are distro Depends; only pywhispercpp and pynput are
vendored because the first is unpackaged on both distros and the second
is missing on Fedora. The Debian 12 build image and the nfpm download
are pinned in tool_checksums.txt.
just native-packages builds both in the pinned container, and
native-smoke installs the built package per distro: debian:12 and
ubuntu:24.04 exercise the .deb, fedora:42 the .rpm, then each runs
vocalinux --version plus an import smoke of the app and the vendored
extension. unified-pipeline.yml gates on the same three-distro matrix,
and release.yml attaches both arches to the release and covers them in
SHA256SUMS and the provenance manifest.
Refs #600
* fix(packaging): preserve launcher args and document Wayland input group
The launcher joined $* into an unquoted exec, re-splitting file paths
that contain spaces before argparse saw them. Exec "$@" directly and
re-quote each argument for the inner shell of 'sg input -c'.
On Wayland the packages could not grant the 'input' group membership
evdev hotkeys need; name the usermod step and its caveat in INSTALL.md
and the release notes.
* test(packaging): add return types to the native packaging tests
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Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@gmail.com>
