+* 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 <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>)
+* 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)
+
+Deprecated:
+
+* remove dh_installdebfiles, 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!