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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maveonair/helix-editor
Repository: 'deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/maveonair/helix-editor/ubuntu/ jammy main'
Description:
A post-modern text editor.

The source code used to build the package can be found here: https://github.com/maveonair/helix-ppa.

Please report packaging issues to https://github.com/maveonair/helix-ppa/issues
More info: https://launchpad.net/~maveonair/+archive/ubuntu/helix-editor
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G'day,

I tried to install helix on my RPi running Raspbian Bullseye. Alas, it requires packages for armhf instead of arm64:

dpkg: error processing archive helix_23.03-3~ubuntu20.04~ppa1_arm64.deb (--install):
 package architecture (arm64) does not match system (armhf)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 helix_23.03-3~ubuntu20.04~ppa1_arm64.deb

I admit I have no idea how you manage a PPA - is it possible to "just enable" building packages for armhf, too? That would be awesome. :)

If I see this correctly this only works on Ubuntu, would it be possible to make debian available?

Typically, /var/lib/ would contain data that is expected to be changed by an application at runtime, rather than data that is updated only through the package manager. Wouldn't /usr/lib/helix/ be a more standard location for the files that are currently installed in /var/lib/helix/?

In addition to matching what other packages seem to do, I note that this configuration is used in an example in upstream docs.

It looks like 23.10 was released today:

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases/tag/23.10

Would be great to have a new build.

I quite understand if there are technical limitations behind the PPA being limited to amd64 and arm64, but thought I'd ask in case armhf is simply switched off on the assumption there would be no users for such packages.

I would find it useful for editing config files on my Odroid HC2.

I don't think the helix.sh script is necessary.

The hx binary will look for a runtime directory in the same directory it is placed it. I.e:

/usr/lib/helix/hx will look for a runtime in /usr/lib/helix/runtime. So a simple symlink should suffice.

I realize it's not the end of the world, but every process call counts!

Hi,
thanks a lot for your packaging work.
Helix published a new version some weeks ago https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases/tag/23.05. Would you consider building a new package for this version ?