From efddac29420010be228152dadc614bb4c197aeae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Schneider <paul@pschneider.fr>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:52:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] workflow: install binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu for
 dh_makeshlibs

dh_makeshlibs is invoked by debhelper during cross-builds to
produce the .shlibs cache, and it calls arch-specific objdump
to read ELF symbols of the bin we're shipping. For arm64 that
means aarch64-linux-gnu-objdump, which is provided by
binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu (~50 Mo in apt).

binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu ships the cross-binutils without
the cross-gcc; we don't need gcc-arm64 because there's no C
code in this package (the build is pure dotnet publish).
---
 .forgejo/workflows/release.yml | 25 +++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.forgejo/workflows/release.yml b/.forgejo/workflows/release.yml
index 8c1ee26..c2d216c 100644
--- a/.forgejo/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.forgejo/workflows/release.yml
@@ -76,18 +76,19 @@ jobs:
           apt-get update
           apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
               build-essential debhelper imagemagick librsvg2-bin \
-              ca-certificates
-          # No arm64 shlibs install needed: \`dotnet publish
-          # --runtime linux-arm64\` cross-compiles natively on amd64
-          # (no arm64 toolchain required), and dpkg-buildpackage
-          # is invoked with -Pcross so debhelper skips the
-          # arch-specific helper tools (aarch64-linux-gnu-objdump
-          # for dh_makeshlibs, etc.) that aren't available on the
-          # host. dh_shlibdeps works without arm64 libs because
-          # we don't ship arm64 build dependencies in debian/control
-          # (the dotnet-sdk-10.0 there is only meaningful for amd64
-          # native builds; dpkg-buildpackage -d skips that check
-          # for arm64 cross).
+              ca-certificates binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu
+          # binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu provides aarch64-linux-gnu-objdump,
+          # which dh_makeshlibs needs to read the ELF symbol table of
+          # the PostIt.Desktop arm64 binary. Without it, dh_makeshlibs
+          # fails with "Can't exec 'aarch64-linux-gnu-objdump': No
+          # such file or directory" (~50 Mo, standard cross-toolkit
+          # binutils — no arm64 GCC needed because there's no C code to
+          # compile, only .NET to publish).
+          #
+          # We don't install libc6:arm64 etc. — dpkg-buildpackage -d
+          # skips the build-deps check (we don't need the arm64 SDK),
+          # and -Pcross toggles the cross-build profile so debhelper
+          # adapts to the cross-build context.
           rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
           : > "$STATE_FILE"