From 140a93ae559010475bbb5091d082bf1a8e3b722f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick McDermott <patrick.mcdermott@libiquity.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:29:42 -0400
Subject: NEWS: Document binary package substvars changes

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(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 753469a..79ca2bb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ Utilities:
 
   * ob-unpacksource now supports decompression of xz-compressed upstream
     archives.
+  * ob-gencontrol now substitutes variables from "<binpkg>.substvars"
+    files in the build work area, enabling new use cases such as
+    automatic shared library dependencies.
   * ob-applypatches now tracks and skips applied patches, instead of
     re-running the patch command and throwing an error.
   * Manual pages for all utilities have been updated/written and are now
@@ -46,6 +49,9 @@ libopkbuild:
     - ob_summarize_package_plat() -- was an unimplemented stub
     - ob_use() -- libopkbuild modules are now "linked" together into one
       library file, so this function is no longer needed
+  * ob_set_substvar() has been renamed to ob_set_source_substvar(), a
+    new function ob_set_binary_substvar() has been added, and
+    ob_substvars() now has an optional "package" operand.
   * ob_parse_changelog() and ob_parse_control() now pass arguments to
     user callbacks instead of setting global variables.
   * Option letters have changed for ob_parse_dep(), ob_reduce_deps(),
@@ -62,7 +68,8 @@ Bug fixes and minor changes:
     shells has been fixed.
   * A bug in opkbuild that would ignore errors from the "build"
     makefile's "build" target has been fixed.
-  * ob_set_substvar()'s return value on success has been fixed.
+  * ob_set_substvar()'s (now ob_set_source_substvar()'s) return value on
+    success has been fixed.
   * ob-gencontrol now drops trailing commas and spaces in dependencies.
   * ob-installdocs now correctly handles "docs" file lines with
     destinations omitted.
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