Launchpad PPA for Debian Distributions

[BenjamenMeyer]

• create a launchpad team for the package maintainers
• ensure several of the project core devs have accounts on Launchpad.net - at least the following:
  • @BenjamenMeyer
  • @stephengtuggy
  • @Loki1950
  • @nabaco
• Create a project in Launchpad.net for the PPA distribution; we should have one for each supported platform:
  • Debian 9
  • Debian 10
  • Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)
  • Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal)

[BenjamenMeyer]

LaunchPad Team: https://launchpad.net/~vega-strike

[BenjamenMeyer]

LaunchPad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~vega-strike/+archive/ubuntu/releases

[BenjamenMeyer]

NOTE: LaunchPad requires that we push at least source packages; we'll want to push our binary packages too.

[BenjamenMeyer]

Myself and @stephengtuggy are members of the launchpad team

[BenjamenMeyer]

We discovered that we need a special build process for LaunchPad if we want to deploy there as we have to follow their requirements which presently don't integrate with CMake/CPack as we can't directly upload a DEB file - we upload the source and then it builds the DEB files for Ubuntu only releases.

[BenjamenMeyer]

We need to decide if we're going to go with this or close it out. Taking this off 0.6.x.

NOTE: I would have said we'd be able to use GH's equivalent, but our Asset Packages are too large for the free account.