* 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
+ 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:
--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.
+v6:
+
+* 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 (I do this now),
+* DH_COMPAT 1, 2. Can be removed once all packages are seen to be using 3 or
+ higher. 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 depercate/remove debian/compress files, -X is
+ 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_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