1 This is the TODO for debhelper. As more and more people use debhelper, this
2 list grows - I welcome patches to fix items on it!
6 * All debhelper programs should only accept the options they are documented
7 to accept (rather than accepting all debhelper options). They should
8 be able to print brief usage summaries.
10 I think this calls for a restructuring. Make a Debhelper.pm class. Each
11 program subclasses the class. The class provides command line parsing,
12 useful functions, and so on. Skeleton of a debhelper command would then
15 use base qw{Debhelper};
18 # Add initialization stuff here.
24 # Stuff to do for each package here.
28 # And final stuff here, if any.
31 This needs more thought.
35 * escaping in config files (for whitespace)?
36 * make dh_installman set up slave links. X11 stuff is no longer
37 a problem due to X reorg. #85963
38 * fix dh_builddeb DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE support to operate same as other
44 * DH_COMPAT 1, 2. Can be removed once all packages are seen to be using 3 or
45 higher. I won't hold my breath. Now with evil warning messages though.
46 * Also, grep the entire archive for all dh_* command lines,
47 and check to see what other switches are not being used, and maybe remove
48 some of them. I'd also like to deprecate/remove debian/compress files, -X is
50 * dh_suidregister. Once nothing in the archive uses it.
52 * dh_testversion. Remove as soon as nothing uses it.
53 * dh_movefiles. I won't hold my breath.
54 * debconf-mergetemplates support and the debian/template.ll files and the
55 debconf-utils dependency.
57 * dh_installinit --init-script