Wishlist items:
-* Move the perl libs into the correct perl lib dirs. Makes all debehelper
- scripts shorter..
-* Make dh_* "use strict".
-* Make dh_movefiles remove emptied directories after it's moved all the
- files out of them (#17111).
-* enhance dh_installmanpages so it associates binaries and man pages and
- installs the man pages into the correct areas to suit the binaries they
- document. I may need to make this only happen when a switch is given, to
- preserve backward compatibility. (#16933, #17061)
-* maybe make dh_installmanpages look at the .TH line of man pages whose
- filenames end in .man, to figure out what section they go it. This would
- require a switch to turn on, for backwards compatibility.
+* 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.
+
+ 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.
+
* All debhelper programs should be checked that they output files with the
correct permissions no matter what the umask is set to. Currently, only
those programs that run after dh_fixperms have been so checked. (Checking
* All programs should also make sure the files they install are owned by
root.root. Situation is currently the same as with permissions above, plus
dh_installchangelogs is fixed.
-* something should add ldconfig calls properly to the postinst of packages
- that contain shared libraries. maybe dh_makeshlibs? But it wasn't designed
- to do that originally, and even worse, it is often run after
- dh_installdeb, so the fragments wouldn't go into the postinst. So maybe a
- new script is called for. But it's probably be best to just have a switch
- to enable this.
* Need a way to make dh_strip not strip any static libs. Also, it'd be nice
if there were options to dh_strip, dh_compress, etc, to allow inclusion of
directories and exclusion of files based on filename globbing. (Request from
postinst.in before debhelper gets it's hands on it... (#25235)
* objdump -p can get the soname of a library, try using that in dh_shlibs
instead of parsing filenames.
-* to suport foo-doc -> foo symlinks in /usr/share/doc, make
- dh_installdocs/changelogs check to see if the doc dir is a symlink to a
- directory. If so, dh_installdocs does not install copyright, and
- dh_installchangelogs does nothing, but everything else dh_installdocs would
- do is still done. This means that you need to use dh_link and dh_installdirs
- to set up the link and directory.
Deprecated:
-* remove dh_du.
- - need to wait a reasonable length of
- time. I'm currently planning on doing this after slink is released or
- one year after they were deprecated, whichever comes first. Be sure to
- grep whole debian archive for all of them before removing them, though!
- - currently, a few packages in potato use dh_du, but bugs have been filed.
-* Remove support for --number option
- - only dh_installemacsen ever used it, it is not --priority.
-
+* 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, 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
+ 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_testversion. Only mildly deprecated right now. Make it emit a warning
+ by jan 2002, and remove as soon as nothing uses it.
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