In https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1741, we observed that
every attempt to use `docker --platform` along with `debian` for
packaging ooniprobe fails with `SEGFAULT`, except when using
the `debian:oldstable` container.
To fix this issue, in this diff we fix Debian packaging to run on
any debian system (`debian:stable` in our case) provided that we
have `qemu-user-static` installed on the system and the system is
a Debian (or Debian-derived) system.
The trick here is to use `dpkg-buildpackage -a $deb_arch`. We
also need to disable a few `debian/rules` that we don't actually
need anyway.
Closes https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1741.
This cherry-picks 36a5bf34f99f382a081efd642dd472888a57602b
from the stable branch into the master branch.
We are mostly good to declare a stable release. We still need to deal with https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1484.
In this PR, we fix the aforementioned issue. These are the changes:
1. we remove the vendored `debops-ci`, and we pull it directly from `ooni/sysadmin`
2. we introduce a new script, `./CLI/linux/pubdebian`, to publish packages
3. we modify `./mk` to allow for publishing debian packages built outside of CI
The latter point has been quite useful in debugging what was wrong.
This pull request fixes https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1471. We have replaced the original build script (`./make`) with the `./mk` makefile (executable using `#!/usr/bin/make -f`). We concluded supporting direct builds from Windows is not worth the effort and halving the code we need to maintain is probably a good plus. Both macOS and Linux install GNU make at `/usr/bin/make`, so we should be okay in the common use cases.
I significantly simplified the management of Go versioning by requiring the user to manage it and by enforcing that we are using the desired Go version. This speeds up builds and works in sane operating systems that use the last version of a specific package. Otherwise, it's possible to use the `go get golang.org/dl/go${version}` feature.
The remaining question mark was related to updating the Android SDK. I have determined that a good course of action is pinning to the latest CLI tools and always forcing the CLI tools to install the latest required packages (e.g., the NDK).
