🐥 Hosting your own APT repository for a Go CLI tool

Distributing a command-line tool to Linux users is straightforward until you want to make it feel native. Tarballs work, but APT packages are what seasoned Linux users expect: a single apt install , automatic updates via apt upgrade , and clean removal with apt remove . This post walks through how we set up a self-hosted APT repository for a Go CLI tool using only a Makefile, a small shell script,…