Make distro packages the single source of truth for GTK/X11 Python bindings instead of advertising them as wheel-managed runtime dependencies. Update the uv, CI, and packaging workflows to use system site packages, regenerate uv.lock, and keep portable and Arch metadata aligned with that contract.
Pull runtime policy, audio probing, and page builders out of config_ui.py so the settings window becomes a coordinator instead of a single large mixed-concern module. Rename the config serialization and logging helpers, and stop startup logging from exposing raw vocabulary entries or custom model paths.
Remove stale helper aliases and add regression coverage for safe startup logging, packaging metadata and module drift, portable requirements, and the extracted audio helper behavior.
Validated with uv lock, python3 -m compileall -q src tests, python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py', make build, and make package-arch.
Stop implying that one Ubuntu 3.11 unit lane validates the full Linux support surface Aman documents.\n\nSplit CI into an Ubuntu CPython 3.10/3.11/3.12 unit-package matrix, a portable install plus doctor smoke lane, and a packaging lane gated on both. Add a reproducible ci_portable_smoke.sh helper with fake systemctl coverage, and force the installer onto /usr/bin/python3 so the smoke path uses the distro-provided GI and X11 Python packages it is meant to validate.\n\nUpdate the README, release/distribution docs, and Debian metadata to distinguish the automated Ubuntu CI floor from broader manual GA signoff families, and add the missing AppIndicator introspection package to the Ubuntu/Debian dependency lists.\n\nValidate with python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py', python3 -m py_compile src/*.py tests/*.py, and bash -n scripts/ci_portable_smoke.sh. The full xvfb-backed smoke could not be run locally in this sandbox because xvfb-run is unavailable.
Stop aman.py from importing the GTK settings module at module load so version, init, bench, diagnostics, and top-level help can start without pulling in the UI stack.\n\nPromote PyGObject and python-xlib into main project dependencies, switch the documented source install surface to plain uv/pip commands, and teach the portable, deb, and Arch packaging flows to install filtered runtime requirements before the Aman wheel so they still rely on distro-provided GTK/X11 packages.\n\nAdd regression coverage for importing aman with config_ui blocked and for the portable bundle's new requirements payload, then rerun the focused CLI/diagnostics/portable tests plus py_compile.
Add the repo-side pieces for milestone 5: MIT licensing, real maintainer and forge metadata, a public support doc, 1.0.0 release notes, release-prep tooling, and CI uploads for the full candidate artifact set.
Keep source-tree version surfaces honest by reading the local project version in the CLI and About dialog, and cover the new release-prep plus version-fallback behavior with focused tests.
Document where raw validation evidence belongs, add the GA validation rollup, and archive the latest readiness review. Milestone 5 remains open until the forge release page is published and the milestone 2 and 3 matrices are filled with linked manual evidence.
Validation: PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py'; PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest tests.test_release_prep tests.test_portable_bundle tests.test_aman_cli tests.test_config_ui; python3 -m py_compile src/*.py tests/*.py; PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m aman version
Implement milestone 2 around a portable X11 release bundle instead of\nkeeping distro packages as the only end-user path.\n\nAdd make/package scripts plus a portable installer helper that builds the\ntarball, creates a user-scoped venv install, manages the user service, handles\nupgrade rollback, and supports uninstall with optional purge.\n\nFlip the end-user docs to the portable bundle, add a dedicated install guide\nand validation matrix, and leave the roadmap milestone open only for the\nremaining manual distro validation evidence.\n\nValidation: python3 -m py_compile src/*.py packaging/portable/portable_installer.py tests/test_portable_bundle.py; PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest tests.test_portable_bundle; PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest tests.test_aman_cli tests.test_diagnostics tests.test_portable_bundle; PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py'
