Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@debian.org>
* Package name : appimagekit Version : git Upstream Author : Simon Peter * URL : https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based distributions Using AppImageKit you can package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and derivatives. The AppImage format is a format for packaging applications in a way that allows them to run on a variety of different target systems (base operating systems, distributions) without further modification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage AppImageKit is a concrete implementation of the AppImage format and provides tools such as appimagetool and appimaged for conveniently handling AppImages. appimagetool uses a next-generation AppImage format based on squashfs and embeds a runtime for it. appimaged is a daemon that handles registering and unregistering AppImages with the system (e.g., menu entries, icons, MIME types, binary delta updates, and such). Flatpak and Snaps solve similar problems. AppImageKit is comparatively a very simplistic approach. This will be maintained under collab-maint
