emacs-pgtk - Building an Emacs 30 Debian package with pure GTK support

Purpose

Pure GTK Emacs runs better on Wayland. This project builds an Emacs Debian package from the latest emacs-30 git branch, with support for pure GTK and native compilation, targeting Trixie and Bookworm systems.

Caveats

The resulting package isn't lintian clean: it doesn't have a man page and a changelog, I included a copyright file, but I assumed all files are under GPL 3.0, the official Debian Emacs package is more thorough, additionally, it lacks a proper cryptographic signature. Anywho, since it's not supposed to be officially distributed, it's good enough for my purpose.
The native compilation is done at build time using: make NATIVE_FULL_AOT=1

Prerequisites

git
make
docker

Build on Premise

Typing make will fetch the latest commit and build it for your host Debian version.

$ git clone https://github.com/ndrvtl/emacs-pgtk
$ cd emacs-pgtk
$ make

Build using GitHub Actions

Launching manually the workflow using the actions menu or pushing a change on the repository.

Acknowledgments

Big thanks to Étienne Bersac (https://github.com/bersace) who has basically rewritten all the build infrastructure.