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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 breif 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 dh_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)
v4:
See debhelper's man page for what's implemented so far.
These items are planned:
* Maybe make dh_fixperms make all files in bin/ dirs +x. (#119039)
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 depercate/remove debian/compress files, -X is
a better idea.
* dh_suidregister. Once nothing in the archive uses it.
* dh_installmanpages. Only mildly deprecated right now. Once dh_installman
catches on, make it emit a warning, and then wait for it to go away.
* dh_testversion. Remove as soon as nothing uses it.
* dh_installxaw. xaw replacments are dying, nothing uses it validly (bugs
filed on the few packages that use it by accident). Remove as soon as
nothing uses it, or by april 2002.
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