Latest stable releases of developer tools, packaged as .deb and served over apt.
Debian freezes package versions for years. We track upstream and publish new releases within hours —
and we've made the Debian packaging itself fast and easy, so any team can do the same.

Debian stable is an excellent base — but its packages freeze at release time and stay frozen for years. Developer tools move far faster, often releasing weekly, so the versions shipping in apt are routinely months or years behind upstream. Every common workaround trades away something real:

"But Debian Sid already has fresh packages — what are you solving?" Sid is a full rolling development branch: every package on your system moves, all the time. It's the right base for working on Debian itself, and the wrong base for a workstation or server you depend on. Installing a single tool from Sid onto stable usually drags in a newer glibc and half the toolchain with it. And even Sid trails upstream — maintainer upload cycles, NEW-queue reviews, and release freezes regularly add weeks of lag.

What we're solving is deliberately narrower: keep Debian stable as your OS, and get just your dev tools at upstream speed — built as proper packages for the stable suites, so nothing else on your system has to move.

latest-debs exists to close that gap. We do proper Debian packaging of upstream releases in fully public CI and publish to a signed apt repository — so apt install and apt upgrade just work, across every architecture each upstream actually ships for Linux, within hours of each upstream release. Native packages, native tooling, no compromises.

Make Debian packaging fast and easy.

Shipping software for Debian shouldn't require becoming a Debian packager — yet today it does: debhelper, Policy, control/rules files, multi-arch builds, signing, repo hosting. A steep, time-consuming detour when you just want to ship a CLI. Most developers, teams, and orgs skip .deb entirely, and their Debian users pay for it in curl | sh scripts and stale copies.

latest-debs removes that cost:

• One reusable builder — debian-multiarch-builder, a GitHub Action that turns an upstream release into signed, multi-arch .deb packages in a single workflow run. No packaging expertise required.
• Distribution included — releases flow into this signed apt repo automatically. Nothing to host, sign, or babysit.
• Open to your tool — open a package request, or add it to tools.yaml in a PR. Every future upstream release then ships as a .deb within hours.

Everything in this org is built with that same pipeline — the repo is the demo as well as the product.

On Debian (Bookworm or Trixie), with extrepo:

sudo extrepo enable latest-debs
sudo apt update
sudo apt install uv eza lazygit ruff bun deno duckdb lazydocker

Or add the repository manually:

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latest-debs/apt-repo/main/latest-debs.asc \
| sudo gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/keyrings/latest-debs.gpg
echo"deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/latest-debs.gpg] https://latest-debs.github.io/apt-repo/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/latest-debs.list
sudo apt update

Status: early days, but working. All four suites (Bookworm, Trixie, Forky, Sid) are live and signed today. The catalog grows one request at a time — 24 tools and counting.

Tool	What it is	Latest .deb	Install
uv	Extremely fast Python package & project manager		sudo apt install uv
eza	Modern, maintained ls replacement		sudo apt install eza
lazygit	Simple terminal UI for git		sudo apt install lazygit
ruff	Extremely fast Python linter & formatter		sudo apt install ruff
bun	Fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime & toolkit		sudo apt install bun
deno	Modern runtime for JavaScript & TypeScript		sudo apt install deno
duckdb	Analytical in-process SQL database		sudo apt install duckdb
lazydocker	The lazier way to manage everything docker		sudo apt install lazydocker
ripgrep	Recursively search directories for a regex pattern		sudo apt install ripgrep
fd	Simple, fast alternative to find		sudo apt install fd
fzf	Command-line fuzzy finder		sudo apt install fzf
starship	Minimal, fast, customizable shell prompt		sudo apt install starship
just	Handy command runner		sudo apt install just
hyperfine	Command-line benchmarking tool		sudo apt install hyperfine
k9s	Kubernetes CLI to manage your clusters in style		sudo apt install k9s
atuin	Magical shell history		sudo apt install atuin
xh	Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests		sudo apt install xh
yq	Portable command-line YAML, JSON & XML processor		sudo apt install yq-go
dust	A more intuitive version of du		sudo apt install du-dust
procs	A modern replacement for ps		sudo apt install procs
bottom	Cross-platform graphical process/system monitor		sudo apt install bottom
bat	A cat(1) clone with wings		sudo apt install bat
zoxide	A smarter cd command for your terminal		sudo apt install zoxide
delta	Syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep & blame		sudo apt install git-delta

yq and delta/dust ship under the names yq-go/git-delta/du-dust — Debian's own archive already has unrelated packages under their plain names, so ours are disambiguated the same way upstream (or other distros) already do.

Want another tool packaged? Request it — that's how the list grows. Track all open requests under the package-request label.

• Debian: Bookworm (12), Trixie (13), Forky (14/testing), and Sid (unstable) — all live
• Architectures: amd64, arm64, armhf, armel, i386 (Bookworm/Trixie only), ppc64el, riscv64, s390x, loong64 — whichever each upstream actually publishes a Linux build for (not every tool covers all nine; see each package's repo for its exact list)
• Updates: the repo rebuilds automatically, roughly every 6 hours after an upstream release

Ubuntu and derivatives are not officially targeted yet — the packages may install fine, but they're only tested on Debian.

All packages are built in public GitHub Actions runs from public upstream sources — no blobs, no private steps. The apt repo is signed with:

ed25519 9329 C48E AEC0 0249 5619 50D4 C34D 4229 518A B96A
uid latest-debs <latest-debs@users.noreply.github.com>

Verify the key you downloaded before enabling the repo:

gpg --show-keys /etc/apt/keyrings/latest-debs.gpg

Every build is produced by debian-multiarch-builder, a reusable GitHub Action you can inspect and reuse.

Is this official Debian? No — unofficial, community packaging. For issues with a tool itself, report upstream; for packaging issues, open an issue on the tool's -debian repo.

How fresh are the packages? A scheduled workflow checks upstream releases and rebuilds; expect new versions within ~6 hours of the upstream tag.

How do I add my favorite tool? Open a package request — name, upstream URL, and license is all we need. Or add an entry to tools.yaml in a PR against apt-repo.

Outreach is the thing we need most right now — the tooling works and the packages exist; what's missing is people bringing them to the projects and developers who'd benefit. If you'd like to sign up for outreach — pitching the packaging service to a project's maintainers, driving package requests, writing about the project, or fielding questions in discussions — see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Packaging fixes, new tools, and build-config reviews are also welcome — see apt-repo for how the pipeline works. If latest-debs saves you time, sponsor the automation.