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deleted file mode 100644
index fc5defc..0000000
--- a/daps-0.9beta7.tar.bz2
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-oid sha256:9852eef9c1fc3546dc37efc25914b7d568f8f082e909eec5b852a47b78129715
-size 759589
diff --git a/daps-0.9beta8.tar.bz2 b/daps-0.9beta8.tar.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..86a16ac
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+++ b/daps-0.9beta8.tar.bz2
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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diff --git a/daps.changes b/daps.changes
index 901c8fc..81fe5dd 100644
--- a/daps.changes
+++ b/daps.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Sep 30 14:48:36 UTC 2011 - fsundermeyer@opensuse.org
+
+Beta 8:
+
+- new option "--static" for html builds copies images and css files
+  rather than linking them (which is the default)
+- document-files-html / document-files-pdf / desktop-files now only
+  generate the desktop files rather than creating tarballs
+  * tarballs are generated with dist-document-files-html, dist-...
+  * document-files-dir-name, desktop-files-dir-name show the
+    directory names for the generated desktop files
+- new file names for PDFs:
+  color: ($BOOK|$ROOTID)_$LANG.pdf
+  print: ($BOOK|$ROOTID)-print_$LANG.pdf
+- new option --def-file=DEFFILE for target package-src. If specified
+  also adds all ENV files referenced in the DEF-file to the tarball
+- new option --def-file=DEFFILE for target locdrop adds the DEF-file
+  to the notrans tarball
+- Bugfix:
+  * get name targets (pdf-name, html-dir-name,...) now support
+    options --name, --rootid, -cdr
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep 26 15:36:46 UTC 2011 - fsundermeyer@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/daps.spec b/daps.spec
index 43d5a51..38a85a8 100644
--- a/daps.spec
+++ b/daps.spec
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #
 
 Name:           daps
-Version:        0.9beta7
+Version:        0.9beta8
 
 %define dtdversion     1.0
 %define dtdname        novdoc
@@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ Requires:       zip
 Requires:       perl-checkbot
 Requires:       xmlgraphics-fop >= 0.94
 %else
-%if 0%{?sles_version}
-Recommends:     checkbot
+%if %{undefined sles_version}
+Requires:  checkbot
 %else
-Requires:       checkbot
+Recommends:     checkbot
 %endif
 Requires:        fop >= 0.94
 Requires:        xerces-j2