Issues

• Targets rely on implicit __init__.py creation, causing rules_python deprecation warnings

  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1081 · Filter by author onnosteenbergen-samotics opened on Sep 28, 2026

• Speed up zip/tar by allowing performant tool replacements.

  designfeature-request
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1080 · Filter by author aiuto opened on Sep 23, 2026
  1

• Expose a Starlark library target for public pkg.bzl APIs

  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1075 · Filter by author TrapsterDK opened on Aug 11, 2026

• [TarFile]: normalize_path does not normalize when --directory is present

  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1072 · Filter by author grrtrr opened on Jul 11, 2026

• pkg_tar does *not* include runfiles via an alias

  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1066 · Filter by author filmil opened on May 15, 2026

• Archive buildiers should create an md5sums file

  feature-request
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1057 · Filter by author aiuto opened on Apr 23, 2026

• pkg_rpm does not properly de-dup the input src-dest manifest

  bugP3rpm
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1045 · Filter by author aiuto opened on Mar 12, 2026

• Instructions for installation don't seem to work

  documentation
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1041 · Filter by author endobson opened on Mar 8, 2026
  1

• pkg_tar with "include_runfiles = True" includes _main/app.exe in tarfile (exe is included twice)

  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1037 · Filter by author fredowski opened on Mar 5, 2026

• Add more capability to push github releases to release_tools.py

  feature-requestP3
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1031 · Filter by author aiuto opened on Feb 20, 2026

• pkg_tar,zip,deb,... rules should return a PackageFilesInfo

  feature-requestP3
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1013 · Filter by author aiuto opened on Jan 27, 2026

• Provide a way to substitute values from volatile-status.txt

  feature-requestP3
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#1008 · Filter by author aiuto opened on Jan 21, 2026
  1

• Move providers out of rules_pkg

  design
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#996 · Filter by author malt3 opened on Dec 12, 2025
  10

  

• It's time to bump python

  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#994 · Filter by author loeffel-io opened on Dec 4, 2025

• Align with rules_img layer file manifests

  designfeature-request
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#981 · Filter by author peakschris opened on Oct 22, 2025
  1

  

• pkg_files ignores included pkg_mklinks

  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#980 · Filter by author aiuto opened on Oct 8, 2025
  1

• pkg_rpm fails on macOS 15.4+ with "No such file or directory" error

  rpm
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#956 · Filter by author MohitBhar opened on Jun 5, 2025

• remap_paths in pkg_tar is not applied to deps

  feature-requestP3
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#955 · Filter by author mering opened on May 28, 2025
  1

• Support make var expansion in pkg_tar

  feature-requestP3
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#947 · Filter by author dmarquez-splunk opened on Apr 1, 2025
  5

• FR: Standardize and toolchainize the tar builder

  feature-requestP2
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#946 · Filter by author thesayyn opened on Mar 26, 2025

• RPM sandbox directory empty since rpmbuild 4.20.0

  bugP2rpm
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#938 · Filter by author teodor-pripoae opened on Feb 19, 2025
  8

  

• Support additional rpm spec directives

  feature-requestP3rpm
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#935 · Filter by author ashi009 opened on Feb 19, 2025
  2

• pkg_zip: overlapping TreeArtifact and file inputs result in duplicated directory entries

  bugP2
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#932 · Filter by author rbeasley-avgo opened on Feb 5, 2025

• Support packaging raw symlinks from declare_symlink

  feature-requestP2
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#929 · Filter by author rickeylev opened on Jan 28, 2025
  1

• pkg_zip: treeartifact input with REMOVE_BASE_DIRECTORY leads to extra "/" zip entry

  bugP2
  bazelbuild/rules_pkg#927 · Filter by author rbeasley-avgo opened on Jan 27, 2025