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Summary

Add GitHub Actions workflow to build Debian packages (.deb) for Linux.

Features

  • Builds GPAC from source (abi-16.4 tag) since libgpac-dev is not available in newer Debian/Ubuntu releases
  • Creates two variants: basic (with OCR) and hardsubx (with FFmpeg)
  • Bundles GPAC library with the package using patchelf for rpath
  • Includes proper Debian package structure with control, postinst, postrm
  • Runs on releases, manual trigger, or workflow file changes
  • Uploads packages as artifacts and attaches to releases

Why

This addresses #1610 by providing an unofficial .deb package for users who prefer that format over AppImage or snap. Since GPAC was removed from Debian due to security concerns, we bundle it with the package (similar to our snap and AppImage builds).

Test plan

  • Workflow runs successfully on push
  • .deb packages install correctly on Ubuntu/Debian
  • ccextractor --version works after installation

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cfsmp3 and others added 9 commits January 18, 2026 18:00
Add GitHub Actions workflow to build Debian packages (.deb) for Linux.

Features:
- Builds GPAC from source (abi-16.4 tag) since libgpac-dev is not
  available in newer Debian/Ubuntu releases
- Creates two variants: basic (with OCR) and hardsubx (with FFmpeg)
- Bundles GPAC library with the package using patchelf for rpath
- Includes proper Debian package structure with control, postinst, postrm
- Runs on releases, manual trigger, or workflow file changes
- Uploads packages as artifacts and attaches to releases

This provides an unofficial .deb package for users who prefer that
format over AppImage or snap.

Relates to #1610

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Update CMakeLists.txt version from 0.89 to 0.96 to match lib_ccx.h
- Extract version from lib_ccx.h instead of CMakeLists.txt for accuracy
- Add missing runtime dependencies: libtesseract, libleptonica
- Add FFmpeg dependencies for hardsubx variant

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Use ubuntu-24.04 runner instead of ubuntu-22.04
- Update dependencies to match Ubuntu 24.04 library versions
  (libtesseract5, libleptonica6, libavcodec60, etc.)
- Update GPAC cache key for new Ubuntu version

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
apt install automatically resolves and installs dependencies,
unlike dpkg -i which fails if dependencies are missing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ubuntu 24.04 uses liblept5, not libleptonica6 (which is Ubuntu 25.04).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CCExtractor is linked against libcurl-gnutls which requires this
runtime dependency on Ubuntu 24.04.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Creates .deb packages for Debian 13 using a Docker container.
- Builds GPAC from source (abi-16.4 tag)
- Creates basic and hardsubx variants
- Uses Debian 13's library versions:
  - libtesseract5, libleptonica6
  - libavcodec61, libavformat61, libavutil59, libswscale8

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add libavdevice, libswresample, and libavfilter dependencies for
the hardsubx variant on both Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 13 workflows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@cfsmp3 cfsmp3 merged commit d494286 into master Jan 19, 2026
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@cfsmp3 cfsmp3 deleted the ci/build-deb-package branch January 19, 2026 04:37
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CCExtractor CI platform finished running the test files on linux. Below is a summary of the test results, when compared to test for commit f8981e8...:
Report Name Tests Passed
Broken 13/13
CEA-708 14/14
DVB 7/7
DVD 3/3
DVR-MS 2/2
General 25/27
Hardsubx 1/1
Hauppage 3/3
MP4 3/3
NoCC 10/10
Options 81/86
Teletext 21/21
WTV 13/13
XDS 34/34

Your PR breaks these cases:

  • ccextractor --autoprogram --out=ttxt --latin1 --ucla dab1c1bd65...
  • ccextractor --out=srt --latin1 --autoprogram 29e5ffd34b...
  • ccextractor --startcreditstext "CCextractor Start crdit Testing" c4dd893cb9...
  • ccextractor --startcreditsnotbefore 1 --startcreditstext "CCextractor Start crdit Testing" c4dd893cb9...
  • ccextractor --startcreditsnotafter 2 --startcreditstext "CCextractor Start crdit Testing" c4dd893cb9...
  • ccextractor --startcreditsforatleast 1 --startcreditstext "CCextractor Start crdit Testing" c4dd893cb9...
  • ccextractor --startcreditsforatmost 2 --startcreditstext "CCextractor Start crdit Testing" c4dd893cb9...

Congratulations: Merging this PR would fix the following tests:

  • ccextractor --autoprogram --out=srt --latin1 --quant 0 85271be4d2..., Last passed: Never
  • ccextractor --out=spupng c83f765c66..., Last passed: Never

It seems that not all tests were passed completely. This is an indication that the output of some files is not as expected (but might be according to you).

Check the result page for more info.

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CCExtractor CI platform finished running the test files on windows. Below is a summary of the test results, when compared to test for commit f8981e8...:
Report Name Tests Passed
Broken 13/13
CEA-708 14/14
DVB 7/7
DVD 3/3
DVR-MS 2/2
General 27/27
Hardsubx 1/1
Hauppage 3/3
MP4 3/3
NoCC 10/10
Options 85/86
Teletext 21/21
WTV 13/13
XDS 34/34

Your PR breaks these cases:

Congratulations: Merging this PR would fix the following tests:

  • ccextractor --autoprogram --out=srt --latin1 --quant 0 85271be4d2..., Last passed: Never
  • ccextractor --autoprogram --out=ttxt --latin1 --ucla dab1c1bd65..., Last passed: Never
  • ccextractor --out=srt --latin1 --autoprogram 29e5ffd34b..., Last passed: Never
  • ccextractor --startcreditstext "CCextractor Start crdit Testing" c4dd893cb9..., Last passed: Never
  • ccextractor --startcreditsnotbefore 1 --startcreditstext "CCextractor Start crdit Testing" c4dd893cb9..., Last passed: Never
  • ccextractor --startcreditsnotafter 2 --startcreditstext "CCextractor Start crdit Testing" c4dd893cb9..., Last passed: Never
  • ccextractor --startcreditsforatleast 1 --startcreditstext "CCextractor Start crdit Testing" c4dd893cb9..., Last passed: Never
  • ccextractor --startcreditsforatmost 2 --startcreditstext "CCextractor Start crdit Testing" c4dd893cb9..., Last passed: Never

It seems that not all tests were passed completely. This is an indication that the output of some files is not as expected (but might be according to you).

Check the result page for more info.

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