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 breif usage summaries.
10 I think this calls for a restucturing. 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.
33 * install-info, as of dpkg 1.10, parses the info file for section if
34 --section is not given. So I should be able to stop parsing it myself for
35 section, after dpkg 1.10 has been around long enough.
39 * DH_COMPAT 1. Can be removed once all packages are seen to be using 2 or
40 higher. I won't hold my breath.
41 * Also, grep the entire archive for all dh_* command lines (I do this now),
42 and check to see what other switches are not being used, and maybe remove
43 some of them. I'd also like to depercate/remove debian/compress files, -X is
45 * dh_suidregister. Once nothing in the archive uses it.
46 * dh_installmanpages. Only mildly deprecated right now. Once dh_installman
47 catches on, make it emit a warning, and then wait for it to go away.
48 * dh_testversion. Remove as soon as nothing uses it.
49 * dh_movefiles. I won't hold my breath.