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@@ -3,54 +3,50 @@ 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) +* 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}; + + 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. + +* 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. 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! +* 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 |