Debspawn

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Released: 2020-01-06

Features:
* Allow to override temporary directory path explicitly in config
* Allow full sources.list customization at image creation time
* Add initial test infrastructure
* Allow 'b' shorthand for the 'build' subparser (Mo Zhou)
* Allow turning on d/rules clean on the host, disable it by default
* Allow selected environment variables to survive auto-sudo
* Implement way to run Lintian as part of the build
* Print pretty error message if configuration JSON is broken
* Prefer hardlinks over copies when creating the APT package cache
* Implement support for injecting packages
* docs: Add a note about how to inject packages
* Only install minimal Python in containers
* Harmonize project name (= Debspawn spelling everywhere)
* Add command to list installed container image details
* Update sbuild replacement note

Bugfixes:
* Ensure we have absolute paths for debspawn run
* Don't fail running command without build/artifacts directory
* Build packages with epochs correctly when building from source-dir
* Sign packages with an epoch correctly
* Change HOME when dropping privileges
* Don't install arch-indep build-deps on arch-only builds
* Shorten nspawn machine name when hostname is exceptionally long
* tests: Test container updates
* Ensure all data lands in its intended directories when installing

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Released: 2019-01-10

Features:
* Allow giving the container extra capabilities easily for custom commands
* Allow giving the container permission to access the host's /dev
* Allow creating an image with a suite and base-suite

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Released: 2018-08-28

Features:
* Allow specifying enabled archive components at image creation time
* Support printing the program version to stdout
* Allow diverting the maintainer address
* Prepare container for arbitrary run action similarly to package build
* Support more build-only choices
* Print some basic system info to the log
* Log some basic disk space stats before/after build

Bugfixes:
* random.choices is only available since Python 3.6, replace it
* Enforce dsrun to be installed in a location were we can find it
* Ensure we don't try to link journals
* Force new configuration by default, not old one
* Set environment shell

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Released: 2018-08-20

Notes:
* Initial release


Debspawn Release Notes

1. Write NEWS entries for Debspawn in the same format as usual.

git shortlog v0.6.4.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new

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