* 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_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.
+* 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)
+* 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.