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.
+v8:
- I think this calls for a restucturing. 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.
-
-* 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
+* make dh_install use hard links for efficiency
+* dh_installinit --restart-after-upgrade as default?
+* #487006: dh_installman with 3-letter codes
+* apply patch in #557603 (breaks compatibility slightly; see #560120)
+* clean up dh's handling of options passed onto commands it calls,
+ either by requiring they come after -- , or by one of the other
+ changes discussed in #570039
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 (I do this now),
+* 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,
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.
* 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_movefiles. I won't hold my breath. Have not added deprecation
+ docs or message yet.
* dh_undocumented
-* dh_installinit --init-script
+* dh_installinit --init-script (make it warn)
+* dh_python
+* dh_clean -k (make it warn (need to make alien not use it 1st!))
+* 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..
+* -s flag, not formally deprecated yet; remove eventually
+* -u flag; add a warning on use and remove eventually
+* delsubstvar() and the last parameter to addsubstvar that makes it remove
+ a string are not used in debhelper itself, but have been left in the
+ library in case other things use them. Deprecate and remove.