TODO


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* add all other functionality of debstd (??)
  - add a program to generate file similar to buildinfo.Debian generated by
    debmake (wishlist bug #17043). I just never saw the point of that file..
  - Make dh_movefiles remove emptied directories after it's moved all the
    files out of them (wishlist bug #17111).
* dh_fixperms: allow listing of files not to be touched (difficult).
* add a dh_debstd, which mimics debstd, but uses debhelper tools internally.
  Note that the idea here is not just another debstd. This program will have
  a -v switch, that lists all the other debhelper commands it needs to run to
  do what debstd had to do. The intent is to make it easy to switch from
  debstd to debhelper.
* info support for debhelper (currently implemented, but I hate how I did it,
  so it's not in the package.) (wishlist bug #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.
* 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.