Wishlist items:
-* 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 brief usage summaries.
-
- I think this calls for a restructuring. Make a Debhelper.pm class. Each
- program subclasses the class. The class provides command line parsing,
- useful functions, and so on. Skeleton of a debhelper command would then
- be:
-
- use base qw{Debhelper};
-
- sub startup {
- # Add initialization stuff here.
- }
-
- sub perpackage {
- my $package=shift;
-
- # Stuff to do for each package here.
- }
-
- sub fini {
- # And final stuff here, if any.
- }
-
- This needs more thought.
-
v8:
* escaping in config files (for whitespace)?
Deprecated:
-* DH_COMPAT 1, 2, 3. Can be removed once all packages are seen to be using
+* DH_COMPAT 1, 2, 3, 4. Can be removed once all packages are seen to be using
a newer version. I won't hold my breath. Now with evil warning messages
though.
* Also, grep the entire archive for all dh_* command lines,
* dh_installmanpages.
* 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
* dh_python
* dh_clean -k (make it warn)
+* Convert warning about unknown command-line options back to an error.
+ Need to wait a while (from Oct 2008) to ensure that most rules files
+ that pass unknown options to commands are fixed.
+* dh_desktop, dh_scrollkeeper. Remove eventually..