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.
-
-v6:
+v8:
* escaping in config files (for whitespace)?
+* make dh_install use hard links for efficiency
+* dh_installinit --restart-after-upgrade as default?
+* #487006: dh_installman with 3-letter codes
Deprecated:
* 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.