electron-builder fails to create .deb package

[StahlFerro]

Building a .deb package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS brings out this error:

  • electron-builder  version=22.10.5 os=5.4.0-77-generic
  • loaded configuration  file=package.json ("build" field)
  • writing effective config  file=release/tridentframe/builder-effective-config.yaml
  • packaging       platform=linux arch=x64 electron=11.2.3 appOutDir=release/tridentframe/linux-unpacked
  • Unpacking electron zip  zipPath=undefined
  • asar usage is disabled — this is strongly not recommended  solution=enable asar and use asarUnpack to unpack files that must be externally available
  • asar usage is disabled — this is strongly not recommended  solution=enable asar and use asarUnpack to unpack files that must be externally available
  • building        target=7z arch=x64 file=release/tridentframe/tridentframe-0.1.0-beta.7.7z
  • building        target=zip arch=x64 file=release/tridentframe/tridentframe-0.1.0-beta.7.zip
  • building        target=deb arch=x64 file=release/tridentframe/tridentframe_0.1.0-beta.7_amd64.deb
  ⨯ cannot execute  cause=exit status 1
                    out={:timestamp=>"2021-07-02T09:13:20.017670+0700", :message=>"Debian packaging tools generally labels all files in /etc as config files, as mandated by policy, so fpm defaults to this behavior for deb packages. You can disable this default behavior with --deb-no-default-config-files flag", :level=>:warn}
    {:timestamp=>"2021-07-02T09:13:20.655713+0700", :message=>"Process failed: tar failed (exit code 2). Full command was:[\"tar\", \"-C\", \"/tmp/package-dir-staging-fa9953abd6ba81d9b887186f2933315d6befccc9138b886888c052f6d690\", \"-I'~/Projects/Python's Projects/TridentFrame/node_modules/app-builder-bin/linux/x64/app-builder'\", \"--numeric-owner\", \"--owner\", \"0\", \"--numeric-owner\", \"--group\", \"0\", \"-cf\", \"/tmp/package-deb-build-a2f9af5eb29165a5fdd6ef8f927f22dd0ea8746c3c509152293a7fa48e8d/data.tar.xz\", \".\"]", :level=>:error}

As a result starting from v0.1.0-beta.7, .deb packages for linux releases are discontinued temporarily until this issue is solved.

[StahlFerro]

Partial resolution is to utilize fpm tool from rubygems on linux deployment dev machine.

Reference: electron-userland/electron-builder#3901 (comment)