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 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. v5: * comments in config files * escaping in config files (for whitespace)? * make dh_installman set up slave links, always assuming wm and man page are in same area (/usr/bin and /usr/share/man, or /usr/X11/). Or, if the .1x extension stuff is a problem, only look for man pages in /usr/share/man. #85963 Deprecated: * 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. * 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