Add debian package files

[silentjet]

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[silentjet]

Hi @peterbarker
Thanks for your review. Was busy for quite some time. I'll update it and will upload a clean version. This one is quite made-on-knees, thus dirty (and that's why WIP is here).

[silentjet]

Hi @peterbarker
Sorry for such a delay, I worked through the actual build and runtime dependencies, and now they are real and validated.
please review.
building the package can be performed using a command:

dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc

resulting debian package can be installed using dpkg tool:

dpkg -i ../python3-pymavlink_2.4.41_amd64.deb

[tpwrules]

Could you help me understand why this would be included here instead of in Debian's repos?

[silentjet]

pymavlink is not a part of Debian official repositories. And adding a new packages not an easy task (as well as later maintaining it). Saying that, as a debian/ubuntu user I faced multiple issues in my "daily" use, which are related to pymavlink itself:

• installing the package "manually" requires use of venv since debian12 and ubuntu 22.04, - can I overcome it? yes, but this is unsecure and system wide approach which is not so good in general
• installing the package from pip is also bit complicated causing problems on different platforms and python versions, can I overcome it - technically yes, the same as above.
• installed package requires adding some "home bin" directory (depends on the system, but mostly $HOME/bin), - that is rather an unsecure approach, and while it is totally acceptable, still it is an unsecure one.

Thus, the 3rd party built package is giving a way to solve most of these problems and is extremaly useful if containers are used (installing a debian binary package is so much faster then every time build/deploy on vm)