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.github/workflows/build-deb.yml

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+# .github/workflows/build-deb.yml
+
+name: Build Debian Package
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ "main" ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ "main" ]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      # 1. Checkout code with full history for versioning
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      # 2. Set up the Go environment
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.22'
+
+      # 3. Install all necessary packaging tools
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y debmake devscripts dh-golang
+
+      # 4. Run debmake to create the debian/ directory and its files
+      - name: Run debmake to create packaging files
+        run: debmake -y -ccc
+
+      # 5. (NEW) Verify that the debian/ directory was created
+      - name: Verify debian/ directory existence
+        run: |
+          if [ ! -d "debian" ]; then
+            echo "Error: debian/ directory was not created by debmake."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "Success: debian/ directory created."
+          ls -l
+
+      # 6. Create the watch file for checking new upstream versions
+      - name: Create debian/watch file
+        run: |
+          echo 'version=4' > debian/watch
+          echo 'opts="filenamemangle=s/.+\/v?(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\.tar\.gz/arduino-cli-$1.tar.gz/" \' >> debian/watch
+          echo '  https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/tags .*/v?(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\.tar\.gz' >> debian/watch
+
+      # 7. Create a proper changelog with the correct version
+      - name: Create changelog with dch
+        run: |