4 <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap>
12 * Review this file and remove or update the old entries.
14 * Look for FIXME and XXX items in the source.
16 * Triage as much bugs as possible to get the bug count below 300 ;) and
17 merge as much patches as possible.
19 * Create dedicated manual pages for .changes and .dsc documenting the
20 format of the files. (deb-foo might not be apprioriate as those are
21 not inside of the .deb file, but changes(5) seems too generic.)
22 Explain that backwards incompatible change involve a major version bump
23 (1.x => 2.x) while minor version bump will be used for backwards
24 compatible extension (e.g. new fields).
27 - Check availability of warning flags at configure time.
29 * Code cleanup / bug fixes:
30 - Get rid of static variables inside functions.
31 - Coalesce admindir / infodir / foodir generation.
32 - Coalesce hash and checksum functions.
33 - Split modstatdb_rw into mode and flags.
34 - Move fd function out of mlib.
35 - Cleanup status chars -> strings hardcoded mappings all over the place.
36 (Fix tied field enum with its dselect description (pkgdisplay.cc))
37 - Refactor src/processarc.c.
38 - Split dpkg.h into independent headers.
39 - Do more unused header include removal.
40 - Add needed includes to all header files.
41 - Get rid of unuseful "unsigned" modifiers.
42 - Use internerr instead of assert, and print more meaninful messages.
43 - Use enums for currently hardcoded literals (replacingfilesandsaid,
44 saidread, rok, filetriggers_edited, etc).
45 - Do not use nfmalloc (and friends) for non in-core db memory.
46 - Call nffreeall on exit (need to detangle nfmalloc from non-db first).
47 - Add a size parameter to the buffer api to avoid some useless
49 - Handle instdir '/' separator consistently.
50 - Check if caching selinux context for second call is possible.
51 - Add missing newlines in --version output.
52 - Handle symlinks in statcmd.c statdb_node_apply().
53 - Fix dpkg termination on SIGPIPE from status-fd.
56 - Add fnmatch, IRIX5 doesn't have it.
59 - Add example to dpkg-scanfoo manpages?
60 - Merge synopsis lines in dpkg-triggers.
61 - Check all command vs action.
62 - Check usage of '|' instead of ', '.
63 - Check position of short option before long option.
64 - Fix dpkg man page, refs to dpkg-deb and dpkg-split, etc.
68 - Check dpkg-divert strings for new and fixable ones.
69 - Standardize translated error messages in the perl code to avoid useless
71 - Check http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/spellcheck/level5/index.html
73 * Discuss and implement
74 http://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/debian/docs/origin.proposal
76 * Deprecate --force-not-root flag (remove modstatdb_rw rootneeded flags).
78 * Test and reenable --command-fd.
80 * Check --no-act for log_action().
82 * Add non-regression tests for Dpkg::Source::*
84 * Add UTF-8 support to all programs.
86 * Allow packages to register additional files, declare ownership of files for
87 dpkg -S and -L without having dpkg act on this (.psuedolist?).
89 * Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps easier to use by other programs such as pbuilder
90 or sbuild, so that they can start using the new architecture wildcards
92 - Support for output format. (#214566)
94 * Fix conflicting action -%c, when short is 0.
96 * We should set our own obstack_alloc_failed_handler.
98 * Remove compatibility symlinks
99 /usr/sbin/{update-alternatives,dpkg-divert,dpkg-statoverride}.
100 * Remove install-info wrapper.
103 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
105 Old TODO entries from Scott:
108 * capabilities support
112 * allow external program to specify how to handle conffiles
113 * try to remove directories again after removing conffiles
114 * verify Enhances works (ie don't trigger some assertion)
115 * add test to see if a file should really be installed and optionally
117 * dpkg --call-maint-script=<script> --maint-script-arg=<arg>
118 --maint-script-arg=<arg> <pkg> <pkg>
119 dpkg will not allow <script> to be one of {pre,post}{inst,rm}. Only
120 unknown scripts can be called this way. dpkg will also not keep track
121 of any state for these scripts.
124 <joeyh_> package a conflicted with old versions of package b. package b
125 conficted with old versions of package a. I had the old versions of both
126 installed, and told dpkg to install the new versions of a and b
127 simulantaneously. It refused.
132 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
134 Old TODO entries from IWJ:
136 Here are some currently-known inadequacies:
139 * Conflicts << installation ordering
140 * Version numbers in pre-depends stuff
141 * Search for all pre-depends things at once, bomb out if any not found
142 * _always_ show section in --yet-to-unpack
143 * automatically do --yet-to-unpack in installation methods
144 * check depending packages when installing new version.
145 * Several things ought to be configurable but aren't.
146 * Filenames containing newlines. Conffile names containing spaces.
147 * dpkg --status for virtual packages
148 * openpgp signatures in the package archive
150 other stuff unlikely to get done soon
151 * Automatically remove <file>.gz if <file> can't be found ? and maybe,
152 remove <file> if <file.gz> can't be found? Big mess when we start
153 thinking about bz2 :/
154 * Local version number (using non-numeric epoch, perhaps, or better yet,
155 a --local option in dpkg, so that it marks this package as a local install
156 (when running dpkg -i)? Keeps it from being listed as obsolete, and maybe
157 from being considered for auto-upgrades (apt-get needs to know about this
159 * Filename field generated by --record-avail
160 * understand Replaces in dselect
161 * diversions list as control archive entry
162 * single maintainer script, and new package getting there first
163 * local conffiles, as well as local files that dpkg should check before
166 * dselect per-half focus and keybindings improvements.
167 !missing bug report #1555!
169 * floppy map (where are the files)
170 * how to change case of package names
171 * `fake' or `null' packages