-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".
-* 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.
-* 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)
-* 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:
-* 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_suidmanager. Once nothing in the archive uses it.
+* 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.
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