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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!
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 restructuring. 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.
v6:
* escaping in config files (for whitespace)?
* make dh_installman set up slave links. X11 stuff is no longer
a problem due to X reorg. #85963
* fix dh_builddeb DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE support to operate same as other
commands, see #242834
* Fix #288250
Deprecated:
* DH_COMPAT 1, 2. Can be removed once all packages are seen to be using 3 or
higher. I won't hold my breath. Now with evil warning messages though.
* Also, grep the entire archive for all dh_* command lines,
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.
* 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
* dh_installinit --init-script
* dh_python
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