r392: * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just

     turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
     - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
       Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
       use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
       old rules files have the ordering backwards.
     - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
       conffiles.
     - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
       debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
       non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
       Closes: #34628
   * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
     caution..
   * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
     a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
     and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
     should now be raised to severity important..
   * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
     deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index 9277132e..fa5fc033 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ list grows - I welcome patches to fix items on it!
 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
@@ -23,12 +21,6 @@ Wishlist items:
 * 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
@@ -51,14 +43,6 @@ Wishlist items:
 
 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
diff --git a/doc/v3 b/doc/v3
index bd923de6..1f38b83c 100644
--- a/doc/v3
+++ b/doc/v3
@@ -25,17 +25,9 @@ them.
   the .man filenames properly. It'll probably just assume all man pages have
   an  extension, and delete that extentation, and add the correct one.
 
-* dh_movefiles will use a name other than debian/<package>.files for the
-  list of what to move, because it can't use debian/files for the first
-  package, since that file is already used elsewhere. It'll use
-  debian/<package>.move
-
-* dh_movefiles should delete empty directories after it's moved all files
-  out of them. (#17111)  
-
-* debian/README will be installed as /usr/share/doc/<package>/README in
++ debian/README is installed as /usr/share/doc/<package>/README in
   native packages, and as README.Debian in non-native packages. This is
-  consistent with the handing of debian/TODO and debian/changelog. (#34628)
+  consistent with the handing of debian/TODO and debian/changelog.
 
 * There will be no change to the names of debhelper config files used, I've
   decided against debian/<package>/* and the like, because although those
@@ -45,12 +37,12 @@ them.
   documenting that debian/<foo> works, and will deprecate that usage.
   debian/<package>.<foo> will be preferred even in single binary packages.
 
-* Every file in etc/ will be automatically be flagged as a conffile.
++ Every file in etc/ is automatically flagged as a conffile by dh_installdeb.
 
 * Debhelper config files will support globbing via * and ?, when
   appropriate. To turn this off and use those changarcters raw, just quote
   them.
 
-* dh_makeshlibs will generate autoscript fragments for ldconfig. This will
-  require you call it before dh_installdeb, which isn't always done now.
++ dh_makeshlibs will generate autoscript fragments for ldconfig. This will
+  require you call it before dh_installdeb.