Feature: Initial UniNews Application

.github/workflows/build.yml

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+name: UniNews CI/CD Pipeline
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: ["main", "geo"]
+    tags: ["v*"]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: ["main"]
+
+jobs:
+  validate-and-package:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Source Code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+
+      - name: Install Python Dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install ruff setuptools wheel
+          pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+      - name: Run Ruff Static Analysis
+        run: |
+          ruff check . --fix
+
+      - name: Install Native Build Tools
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y \
+            build-essential \
+            debhelper \
+            dh-python \
+            python3-all \
+            python3-setuptools \
+            python3-pyqt6 \
+            python3-bs4 \
+            python3-requests \
+            python3-feedparser
+
+      - name: Scaffold Debian Control Files
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p debian
+          mkdir -p debian/source
+
+          echo "3.0 (native)" > debian/source/format
+
+          cat << 'EOF' > debian/rules
+          #!/usr/bin/make -f
+          %:
+          	dh $@ --with python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
+          EOF
+          chmod +x debian/rules
+
+          cat << 'EOF' > debian/control
+          Source: uninews
+          Section: python
+          Priority: optional
+          Maintainer: George Apostolidis <geoapostolidis999@gmail.com>
+          Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-python, python3-all, python3-setuptools
+          Standards-Version: 4.6.2
+          Homepage: https://github.com/open-source-uom/UniNews
+
+          Package: python3-uninews
+          Architecture: all
+          Depends: ${python3:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, python3-pyqt6, python3-bs4, python3-requests, python3-feedparser
+          Description: University RSS and news reader desktop app
+           UniNews is a PyQt6 desktop application that aggregates university
+           RSS feeds and selected university news pages into one clean interface.
+          EOF
+
+          DEB_DATE=$(date -R)
+          DEB_AUTHOR=$(git log -1 --pretty=format:'%an <%ae>')
+
+          printf "uninews (0.1.0) noble; urgency=low\n\n  * Auto-generated release.\n\n -- %s  %s\n" "$DEB_AUTHOR" "$DEB_DATE" > debian/changelog
+
+      - name: Build Debian Packages
+        run: |
+          dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
+          dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -S
+
+          mkdir -p output_package
+          mv ../uninews_* output_package/
+
+      - name: Upload Package Artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: uninews-packages
+          path: output_package/*
+
+      - name: Publish .deb to GitHub Releases
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')
+        with:
+          files: output_package/*.deb