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@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@ -* 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). -* 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. -* info support for debhelper (currently implemented, but I hate how I did it, - so it's not in the package.) (wishlist bug #15717) +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: + +* Move the perl libs into the correct perl lib dirs. Makes all debehelper + scripts shorter.. +* 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. + 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. @@ -24,3 +22,37 @@ 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) + +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! |