* All debhelper programs should only accept the options they are documented
to accept (rather than accepting all debhelper options). They should
- be able to print breif usage summaries.
+ be able to print brief usage summaries.
I think this calls for a restucturing. Make a Debhelper.pm class. Each
program subclasses the class. The class provides command line parsing,
This needs more thought.
-* 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.
-* All programs should also make sure the files they install are owned by
- root.root. Situation is currently the same as with permissions above, plus
- dh_installchangelogs is fixed.
-* Support use of environment variables in data taken from user, ie, in
- debian/dirs. The problem with doing this is that we really want to allow
- any filenames in that input, even those that look like environment
- variables. However, it may be worth adding a switch to make it parse
- environment variables. (#20964)
-* It's possible to speed up debhelper by having it cache some values that
- multiple commands call. One way to do this would be to write dh_cache,
- that generates the cache. The catch is that if the user runs that program,
- they are stating that they don't do anything later to invalidate the cache,
- without calling dh_cache again. (#23792)
-* Add a switch to dh_installdeb to allow it to do user defined
- substitutions. OTOH, maybe it's better if people just sed
- postinst.in before debhelper gets it's hands on it... (#25235)
+* install-info, as of dpkg 1.10, parses the info file for section if
+ --section is not given. So I should be able to stop parsing it myself for
+ section, after dpkg 1.10 has been around long enough.
+
+v5:
+
+* comments in config files
+* escaping in config files (for whitespace)?
+* make dh_installman set up slave links, always assuming wm and man page
+ are in same area (/usr/bin and /usr/share/man, or /usr/X11/). Or, if the
+ .1x extension stuff is a problem, only look for man pages in
+ /usr/share/man. #85963
Deprecated:
* DH_COMPAT 1. Can be removed once all packages are seen to be using 2 or
higher. I won't hold my breath.
-* Also, grep the entire archive for all dh_* command lines, and check to
- see what other switches are not being used, and maybe remove some of
- them. I'd also like to depercate/remove debian/compress files, -X is
+* Also, grep the entire archive for all dh_* command lines (I do this now),
+ and check to see what other switches are not being used, and maybe remove
+ some of them. I'd also like to deprecate/remove debian/compress files, -X is
a better idea.
* dh_suidregister. Once nothing in the archive uses it.
* dh_installmanpages. Only mildly deprecated right now. Once dh_installman
catches on, make it emit a warning, and then wait for it to go away.
-* dh_testversion. Only mildly deprecated right now. Make it emit a warning
- by jan 2002, and remove as soon as nothing uses it.
+* dh_testversion. Remove as soon as nothing uses it.
+* dh_movefiles. I won't hold my breath.
+* debconf-mergetemplates support and the debian/template.ll files and the
+ debconf-utils dependency.
+* dh_undocumented
+* dh_installinit --init-script
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