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@@ -1,52 +1,62 @@ 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: - -* 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 brief 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}; +Bugs: - sub startup { - # Add initialization stuff here. - } +* all commands should print a warning message if non-cumulative parameters + are given more than once (ie, two -u's to dh_gencontrol). (#22588) + (Bug currently under dispute, I think this is bogus). - sub perpackage { - my $package=shift; - - # Stuff to do for each package here. - } - - sub fini { - # And final stuff here, if any. - } +Wishlist items: - This needs more thought. - -* 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. +* Make dh_movefiles remove emptied directories after it's moved all the + files out of them (#17111). +* info support for debhelper (currently implemented, but I hate how I did it, + so it's not in the package.) (#15717) +* 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. +* 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. +* 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>) +* docbase support (#25233). Waiting for docbase to stabilize and be used + widely. +* dhelp support. Currently pending on dhelp use becoming widespead (#18342) +* 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: -* 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 deprecate/remove debian/compress files, -X is - a better idea. -* 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. -* debconf-mergetemplates support and the debian/template.ll files and the - debconf-utils dependency. -* dh_undocumented +* 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! |