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  1. ROADMAP
  2. =======
  3. lenny
  4. ~~~~~
  5. * Review this file and remove or update the old entries.
  6. * Triage as much bugs as possible to get the bug count below 300 ;) and
  7. merge as much patches as possible.
  8. 1.14.x
  9. ------
  10. * Make dpkg bootstrappable (modularize dpkg-architecture).
  11. * Fix 'make dist', po4a seems at fault.
  12. * Support udeb natively:
  13. - Add field Package-Type and friends.
  14. - Generate proper Packages files. (#383916)
  15. * Support Tag field.
  16. 1.14.y
  17. ------
  18. * Add Wig&Pen source package support.
  19. * Support lzma and bzip2 source package compression.
  20. * Get rid of install-info.
  21. * Add multiarch support.
  22. * Merge back support for Breaks field from Ubuntu.
  23. * Merge dpkg-cross functionality.
  24. * Merge dpkg-sig?
  25. * Support versioned symbols in dpkg-shlibdeps.
  26. * Start exposing libdpkg.
  27. * Convert controllib.pl to a new style perl module(s).
  28. * Fix tied field enum with its dselect description (pkgdisplay.cc).
  29. * Add example to dpkg-scanfoo manpages?
  30. * The cleverer conffile support bug fixed.
  31. * Add UTF-8 support to all programs.
  32. * Add md5sums and/or sha1sums package support. (#155676)
  33. * Allow packages to register additional files, declare ownership of files for
  34. dpkg -S and -L without having dpkg act on this (.psuedolist?).
  35. * Some kind of test-suite (Esteban).
  36. * Parse the dependencies and coalesce them: controllib.pl (parsedep).
  37. * Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps easier to use by other programs such as pbuilder
  38. or sbuild, so that they can start using the new architecture wildcards
  39. automatically.
  40. - New command line arguments to retrieve Build-Depends. (#114774)
  41. - Support for output format. (#214566)
  42. * Remove conffile background support? (#38334)
  43. * Make dpkg-build --build check for duped conffiles. (#131633)
  44. * Make update-alternatives --display support --quiet. (#336091)
  45. * Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps check build-essential. (#402901)
  46. * Fix pointless use of strdup. (#379027)
  47. * Propagate --admindir to programs run from maintainer scritpts. (#97076)
  48. * Fix quotes? <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html>
  49. TODO
  50. ====
  51. Old TODO entries from Scott:
  52. libdpkg:
  53. * cut compat.c into little pieces and move them to optlib
  54. * modify database to store per-file flags
  55. * store checksums and stat data in per-file flags
  56. optlib:
  57. * add fnmatch, IRIX5 doesn't have it
  58. start-stop-daemon
  59. * capabilities support
  60. * don't close FD's
  61. dpkg
  62. * integrate debconf (add new status)
  63. * allow external program to specify how to handle conffiles
  64. * try to remove directories again after removing conffiles
  65. * verify Enhances works (ie don't trigger some assertion)
  66. * refactor processarc.c
  67. * add test to see if a file should really be installed and optionally
  68. skip it
  69. * dpkg --reconfigure <pkg> <pkg>
  70. <pkg>.postinst reconfigure <ver>
  71. Fail if pkg is not in the configured state.
  72. * dpkg --call-maint-script=<script> --maint-script-arg=<arg>
  73. --maint-script-arg=<arg> <pkg> <pkg>
  74. dpkg will not allow <script> to be one of {pre,post}{inst,rm}. Only
  75. unknown scripts can be called this way. dpkg will also not keep track
  76. of any state for these scripts.
  77. Fix:
  78. <joeyh_> package a conflicted with old versions of package b. package b
  79. conficted with old versions of package a. I had the old versions of both
  80. installed, and told dpkg to install the new versions of a and b
  81. simulantaneously. It refused.
  82. dselect:
  83. * support Enhances
  84. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  85. Old TODO entries from IWJ:
  86. Here are some currently-known inadequacies:
  87. urgent
  88. * Conflicts << installation ordering
  89. * Version numbers in pre-depends stuff
  90. * Search for all pre-depends things at once, bomb out if any not found
  91. * _always_ show section in --yet-to-unpack
  92. * automatically do --yet-to-unpack in installation methods
  93. * check depending packages when installing new version.
  94. * Several things ought to be configurable but aren't.
  95. * Filenames containing newlines. Conffile names containing spaces.
  96. * dpkg --status for virtual packages
  97. * openpgp signatures in the package archive
  98. other stuff unlikely to get done soon
  99. * Automatically remove <file>.gz if <file> can't be found ? and maybe,
  100. remove <file> if <file.gz> can't be found? Big mess when we start
  101. thinking about bz2 :/
  102. * Local version number (using non-numeric epoch, perhaps, or better yet,
  103. a --local option in dpkg, so that it marks this package as a local install
  104. (when running dpkg -i)? Keeps it from being listed as obsolete, and maybe
  105. from being considered for auto-upgrades (apt-get needs to know about this
  106. too)
  107. * Filename field generated by --record-avail
  108. * handle split packages somehow.
  109. * understand Replaces in dselect
  110. * diversions list as control archive entry
  111. * single maintainer script, and new package getting there first
  112. * dpkg -s show something for virtual packages
  113. * local conffiles, aswell as local files that dpkg should check before
  114. overwriting
  115. * hooks
  116. * dselect per-half focus and keybindings improvements.
  117. !missing bug report #1555!
  118. * floppy map (where are the files)
  119. * how to change case of package names
  120. * support for adding files to dpkg's file lists
  121. * `fake' or `null' packages
  122. * dpkg --query | -Q
  123. obsoleted so not done
  124. * version numbers not starting digit early.
  125. * dselect bottom window too large, and/or resize
  126. * `template' file giving default selections of dselect.