-.so files of compressed manpages change to symlinks
-edit package scripts (??)
-add all other functionality of debstd (??)
-dh_fixperms: allow listing of files not to be touched (diffucult).
+* add all other functionality of debstd (??)
+ - add a program to generate file similar to buildinfo.Debian generated by
+ debmake (wishlist bug #17043). I just never saw the point of that file..
+ - Make dh_movefiles remove emptied directories after it's moved all the
+ files out of them (wishlist bug #17111).
+* something should add ldconfig calls properly to the postinst of packages
+ that contain shared libraries. maybe dh_makeshlibs? But it wasn't designed
+ to do that originally, and even worse, it is often run after
+ dh_installdeb, so the fragements wouldn't go into the postinst. So maybe a
+ new script is called for.
+* info support for debhelper (currently implemented, but I hate how I did it,
+ so it's not in the package.) (wishlist bug #15717)
+* enhance dh_installmanpages so it associates binaries and man pages and
+ installs the man pages into the correct areas to suit the binaries they
+ document. I may need to make this only happen when a switch is given, to
+ preserve backward compatibility.
+* maybe make dh_installmanpages look at the .TH line of man pages whose
+ filenames end in .man, to figure out what section they go it. This would
+ require a switch to turn on, for backwards compatibility.
+* All debhelper programs should be checked that they output files with the
+ correct permissions no matter what the umask is set to. Currently, only
+ those programs that run after dh_fixperms have been so checked. (Checking
+ the rest is low priority, since dh_fixperms fixes any incorrect permissions
+ they might have; still it would be nice to check them too, just to make
+ debhelper more flexible.) One easy fix is to add umask 022 to dh_lib,
+ however, there may be unforeseen ramifications of such a change.
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