-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:
-
-* 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.
-
-* 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 dh_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 its hands on it... (#25235)
-* 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.
+* 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 (I do this now),
- 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. 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. Remove as soon as nothing uses it.
-* dh_movefiles. I won't hold my breath.
+* 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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