Hi everyone,
I was getting a bit tired of manually upgrading Gitea, so I initially considered writing an Ansible playbook to automate the process.
However, after some research, I discovered Gitea’s fantastic feature of hosting Debian repositories and decided to build my own APT repository instead.
Since this is my first time building a Debian package, it’s far from perfect, but I plan to improve it over time. Currently:
No package signing yet (will be added later)
No user or config files are created
It simply replaces the binary under /opt/gitea/bin/
Comes with a systemd unit that expects Gitea to run under the gitea user
How to Install
If you want to try it, just add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gitea.list:
deb [trusted=yes] https://git.24unix.net/tracer/gitea-deb/raw/branch/apt-repo/ ./
Then update and install:
apt update && apt install gitea
If you prefer not to install binaries from a third party (which I totally understand – I’m neither a Debian maintainer nor affiliated with Gitea), you can build the packages yourself.
Just clone:
Maybe someone finds this useful! 
Edit: There a currently packages for AMD64 and ARM64.