X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2FTODO;h=cd2721f6bee0efb94047fc4fef7ecdf7a8c3c63b;hb=HEAD;hp=9277132e60a93623c05413ff514a7476c752cab1;hpb=307194e33ae1856238c94a07818d9dfd4712f52f;p=debhelper.git diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index 9277132..cd2721f 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -1,68 +1,34 @@ -This is the TODO for debhelper. As more and more people use debhelper, this -list grows - I welcome patches to fix items on it! +v10: -Wishlist items: - -* 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 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 - the rest is low priority, since dh_fixperms fixes any incorrect permissions - they might have; still it would be nice to check them too, just to make - debhelper more flexible.) One easy fix is to add umask 022 to dh_lib, - however, there may be unforeseen ramifications of such a change. -* 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 - Matthias Klose ) -* Support use of environment variables in data taken from user, ie, in - debian/dirs. The problem with doing this is that we really want to allow - any filenames in that input, even those that look like environment - variables. However, it may be worth adding a switch to make it parse - environment variables. (#20964) -* It's possible to speed up debhelper by having it cache some values that - multiple commands call. One way to do this would be to write dh_cache, - that generates the cache. The catch is that if the user runs that program, - they are stating that they don't do anything later to invalidate the cache, - without calling ch_cache again. (#23792) -* Add a switch to dh_installdeb to allow it to do user defined - substitutions. OTOH, maybe it's better if people just sed - 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. +* escaping in config files (for whitespace)? +* dh_installinit --restart-after-upgrade as default? 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. +* make a missing debian/compat an error. (started printing warning messages + in 20120115) +* 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. (2 and 3 are getting close though.) +* dh_suidregister. Once nothing in the archive uses it. +* dh_installmanpages. +* dh_movefiles. I won't hold my breath. Have not added deprecation + docs or message yet. +* dh_undocumented +* dh_installinit --init-script (make it warn) +* dh_python +* dh_clean -k +* 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. +* dh --before , --after , --until , --remaining +* debian/compress files +* deprecate dh_gconf for dh_installgsettings (stuff should be migrating + away from gconf, and then I can just remove it -- have not added warning + or depreaction docs yet) +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.