apidash/doc/proposals/2025/fosshack/nihal_arch_packaging.md

Add Arch Linux packaging instructions and CI Pipeline

Issue - https://github.com/foss42/apidash/issues/545
PR - https://github.com/foss42/apidash/pull/594
Link - https://fossunited.org/hack/fosshack25/p/e5n4kirnno

A GitHub action is triggered on new version tags when pubspec.yaml changes

It:

• Extracts version from pubspec.yaml
• Downloads and generates checksums for the .deb package and LICENSE
• Updates the PKGBUILD with new version and checksums
• Publishes to AUR using the KSXGitHub/github-actions-deploy-aur action

The following secrets need to be added to the GitHub repository:

• AUR_USERNAME: Maintainer's AUR username
• AUR_EMAIL: Maintainer's AUR email address
• AUR_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: Maintiner's SSH private key with AUR access

Adding workflow for .deb turned out to be complex than I had thought.
I have added the support for arm64 and this will assume .deb files are available at release time.
If they’re not, it will fail, prompting manual intervention or a separate release process.