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diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO deleted file mode 100644 index e3b999bc..00000000 --- a/doc/TODO +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -This is the TODO for debhelper. As more and more people use debhelper, this -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 - 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 <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! |