Building Debian packages is a mess. There a countless of scripts and ways to build a debian package.

One of the more "modern" approaches is a isolated rootfs which is decompressed and extracted from a tarball for every single package being build. As this is inefficient and (once again) based on messy bash scripts, we need something better!

Why not use OverlayFS (which is used by Docker) to mount a mutable temporary directory over an immutable base rootfs.
This way we achieve isolation and efficiency by reusing the immutable layer.

The name change introduced some errors while building the package. I would like to remove the m4 templates and use the proper files instead.

I've seen people asking for a Enterprise Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora) package repository which hosts the latest version of GNUstep.

I've used [OpenSUSE Build Service)(https://build.opensuse.org/) to host rpm package repositories in the past. They are free of charge and allow you to host packages for open source software for many Linux distributions.

I've used Azure Pipelines in the past to push packages to the OpenSUSE Build Service from GitHub: https://github.com/libimobiledevice-win32/imobiledevice-net/blob/master/steps/deploy-osc.yml

I've seen people asking for a Debian/Ubuntu package repository which hosts the latest version of GNUstep for Ubuntu/Debian.

I've used Ubuntu personal package archives to host Debian package repositories in the past. They are free of charge and allow you to host packages for open source software for many versions of Ubuntu.

It's a bit tricky to upload to PPA from GitHub actions, but I've used Azure pipelines in the past: https://github.com/libimobiledevice-win32/imobiledevice-net/blob/master/steps/deploy-ppa.yml

The debian main repository contains GNUstep packages for the legacy GCC toolchain.
We need a new naming scheme to avoid collision between the two different toolchains!