X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2FTODO;h=71fda9f8093e9c2c4e1c8966d3453e75c8306a95;hb=64cd63ff797a52da5222024a966d6fdb495af6b5;hp=393d7645f4e7547a750c9d0c786854c59b6f18c7;hpb=152feab4e3a77f78ae82c254ca0cfd8b7c3876cc;p=debhelper.git diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index 393d764..71fda9f 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -3,49 +3,18 @@ list grows - I welcome patches to fix items on it! 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. - -* 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. - -v6: +v8: * escaping in config files (for whitespace)? -* make dh_installman set up slave links. X11 stuff is no longer - a problem due to X reorg. #85963 -* fix dh_builddeb DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE support to operate same as other - commands, see #242834 +* make dh_install use hard links for efficiency +* dh_installinit --restart-after-upgrade as default? +* #487006: dh_installman with 3-letter codes Deprecated: -* 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. +* DH_COMPAT 1, 2, 3. 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 @@ -58,3 +27,8 @@ Deprecated: debconf-utils dependency. * 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.