I had a shot at downloading zig and compiling ly locally. Ran into a few compile issues to do with libpam, I think. I am interested in taking a look at this further and figuring out how to package for debian. It’s as good an excuse as any to finally learn how debian packages work.
I’m not sure if I’ll make much progress right away as I’m busy with other stuff right now but If I get time to dig into this properly I’ll make a new thread about it.