0.8.1

New Features

• Expose tar manifest as an output (#643)
• Support license attribute in pkg_deb (#651)
• Add support for the txz extension in pkg_tar (#653) (#654)

Fixes

• Explicitly store implicit parent directories in zip files (#640)
• Remove unnecessary to_list() calls (#639)
• Apply package_dir to pkg_mklink (#637)

Thanks to
Alex Eagle, Nils Semmelrock, Doug Rabson, Fabian Meumertzheim

WORKSPACE setup

load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
http_archive(
    name = "rules_pkg",
    urls = [
        "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/releases/download/0.8.1/rules_pkg-0.8.1.tar.gz",
        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/releases/download/0.8.1/rules_pkg-0.8.1.tar.gz",
    ],
    sha256 = "8c20f74bca25d2d442b327ae26768c02cf3c99e93fad0381f32be9aab1967675",
)
load("@rules_pkg//:deps.bzl", "rules_pkg_dependencies")
rules_pkg_dependencies()

Using the rules

See the documentation