Version 1.9.0

Features

• Added the output parameter artifacts
• Added an early check ensuring that the used Docker container is Debian-based

Improvements

• Ensured that clean-up happens even when the build (or something else) fails
• Moved preparatory and clean-up steps into their own log groups
• Minor improvements and additions to the internal testing and linting workflows

Documentation

• Added a note that this actions builds readily “debianized” sources
• Clarified the description of the cross-build support
• Renamed the section “Inputs” to “Input Parameters”

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.9.0

Version 1.8.0

Features

• Support the use of additional APT repositories through the new parameters extra-repos and extra-repo-keys
  (thanks to @leonheldattoradex for the related PRs #7 and #8; there already was an old, unfinished branch with this feature)
• Add a setup-hook for executing commands in the build environment between setup and installation of build dependencies

Documentation

• Use version 4 of actions/checkout in the documentation (and internally in the tests)
• Specify the working directory of the before-build-hook
• Reword the documentation of docker-image

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0

Version 1.7.0

Improvements

• An ever so tiny speed-up to the installation of build dependencies
• Simplify git usage in the before-build-hook (suppress git’s complaints about “dubious ownership” in the repository) (mentioned by @r4sas in #3, thanks)

Documentation

• Add git to the extra-build-deps in the before-build-hook example (mentioned by @r4sas in #3, thanks)
• Mention that the before-build-hook is executed as the root user
• Set a valid package version in the before-build-hook example (valid according to the Debian policy)

Full Changelog: v1.6.1...v1.7.0

Version 1.6.1

• Fix a failure when moving artifacts with valid filenames (introduced by version 1.6.0, fixes #3, thanks @r4sas)

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.6.1

Version 1.6.0

• Leverage libdpkg-perl to find the artifacts to move
• Log a message if source-dir/.. and artifacts-dir are identical and an artifact did not need to be moved

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0

Version 1.5.0

• Add a before-build hook for executing commands inside the build container after the installation of build dependencies and right before dpkg-buildpackage is executed

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0

Version 1.4.0

• Create the action’s temporary files and directories below RUNNER_TEMP
• Reword a reference to pbuilder and sbuild in the README.md

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.4.0

Version 1.3.0

• Support building the source package
• Use version 3 of actions/checkout

Version 1.2.0

Add parameter extra-docker-args to pass additional arguments to docker run when the build container is started (#1, thanks @usimd)

Version 1.1.0

Add support for local Dockerfiles to the docker-image parameter