Git-secret: Bintray is going away

[dkrutsko]

According to this blog post, Bintray is being retired May 1st. I believe this project will be affected as some of your artifacts, like RPM, are being stored there.

[sobolevn]

Oh, bad news 😢

[Fouppy]

Any plans to move packages somewhere else?

[StephenMP]

Bintray finally bit the dust, we switched to installing from source which works; however, may be good to look at getting a debian package hosted somewhere?

[joshrabinowitz]

@Fouppy / @StephenMP Do you (or other users of git-secret) have suggestions about which package hosting service we should consider?

[dkrutsko]

As a stopgap measure, why not just host repository files directly on GitHub through their releases feature?

[Neamar]

Agreed, hosting on Github would be a good way to fix the issue :)

[joshrabinowitz]

@sobolevn can you make this change?

[sobolevn]

Yes! 👍

[Neamar]

Hi!

Bintray is going away in a couple hours, and the current installation procedure is still using it. Is there any other method that can be used?

[sobolevn]

I have reached GitHub engineers and consulted their docs, GitHub releases cannot be used as an alternative for Bintray yet. Because it does not provide apt-compatible interface.

There's https://packagecloud.io/l/apt-repository
But, I will need more time to research it.

[Neamar]

I see. Otherwise, can we host the actual binary (without apt) to be downloaded as a release?

For instance, just hosting the .deb file? This way users can dpkg -i the file.

[sobolevn]

I guess that in our case it would be easier to host just a text file, because git-secret is written in bash, so it can be as easy as just dropping a single text file into $PATH.

This is, of course, a temporary fix, utill we can fully move to a new hosting provider.

[dkrutsko]

@sobolevn in the meantime, maybe the repository packages can just be stored in GitHub's release infrastructure? We can, for example, download the RPM and install it locally on our systems.