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This is the TODO for debhelper. As more and more people use debhelper, this
list grows - I welcome patches to fix items on it!
Bugs:
* dh_installdocs fails if debian/docs is empty except for a blank line.
There are probably other instances of this. Debhelper should behave better
(#24686).
* all commands should print a warning message if non-cumulative parameters
are given more than once (ie, two -u's to dh_gencontrol).
Wishlist items:
* update PROGRAMMING to cover new perl interface.
* 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 fragements wouldn't go into the postinst. So maybe a
new script is called for.
* docbase support (#25233). Waiting for docbase to stabalize and be used
widly.
* Support /etc/X11/window-managers, by making it easy for window managers to
add themselves to it in the postinst. Not high priority because there are
few window managers. (#20971)
* 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 definied
substitutions. (#25235)
Depricated:
* remove dh_installdebfiles, dh_du.
- need to wait a reasonable length of time. I'm currently planning
on doing this after slink is released.
Long term goals:
Convert selected debhelper commands (dh_installmanpages?) to be perl
programs, for speed, ease of maintainence, and 8-bit cleanness.
Fixes to backport to 1.0 tree:
* dh_installdocs used -m 655 for a TODO file.
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