debian+phosh running on PinePhone

[a-wai]

I recently saw that battery life on Ubuntu touch has been increased a lot with the addition of CRUST. Is there any plans to incorporate it in the Debian image ?

As previously mentioned, work in this direction will be part of the next release. Please note, however, that it has its drawbacks, such as incoming calls not waking up the phone atm (even in UT, no OS has it figured out yet), so it's really experimental and not fit for using the phone as a daily driver.

Not sure if this is an upstream issue, but I think this depends on the configuration. When the screen is turned off it will still accept touch input. You can test this by turning the screen off, swiping upwards and then turning the screen back on. You will see the pin entry instead of just the lock screen.

This is tracked as an upstream issue already, but it depends on other stuff being implemented before it is being dealt with.

i managed to build nmap on it, and wanted to see what i had to do to contribute that to the effort.  i'm going to be building a lot of things from source and some of it may be non-standard.  if it isn't that hard to turn it into an install package i can do that while i'm building them and share them with everyone.

That'd be nice, thanks! You can check the Debian new maintainer's guide to have an overview of the packaging process, and feel free to use the packages on our Gitlab as examples.
Regarding nmap this shouldn't be necessary however, as the package already exists in Debian.