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- ROADMAP
- =======
- lenny
- ~~~~~
- * Review this file and remove or update the old entries.
- * Triage as much bugs as possible to get the bug count below 300 ;) and
- merge as much patches as possible.
- 1.14.x
- ------
- * Make dpkg bootstrappable (modularize dpkg-architecture).
- * Fix 'make dist', po4a seems at fault.
- * Support udeb natively:
- - Add field Package-Type and friends.
- - Generate proper Packages files. (#383916)
- * Support Tag field.
- 1.14.y
- ------
- * Add Wig&Pen source package support.
- * Support lzma and bzip2 source package compression.
- * Get rid of install-info.
- * Add multiarch support.
- * Merge back support for Breaks field from Ubuntu.
- * Merge dpkg-cross functionality.
- * Merge dpkg-sig?
- * Support versioned symbols in dpkg-shlibdeps.
- * Start exposing libdpkg.
- * Convert controllib.pl to a new style perl module(s).
- * Fix tied field enum with its dselect description (pkgdisplay.cc).
- * Add example to dpkg-scanfoo manpages?
- * The cleverer conffile support bug fixed.
- * Add UTF-8 support to all programs.
- * Add md5sums and/or sha1sums package support. (#155676)
- * Allow packages to register additional files, declare ownership of files for
- dpkg -S and -L without having dpkg act on this (.psuedolist?).
- * Some kind of test-suite (Esteban).
- * Parse the dependencies and coalesce them: controllib.pl (parsedep).
- * Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps easier to use by other programs such as pbuilder
- or sbuild, so that they can start using the new architecture wildcards
- automatically.
- - New command line arguments to retrieve Build-Depends. (#114774)
- - Support for output format. (#214566)
- * Remove conffile background support? (#38334)
- * Make dpkg-build --build check for duped conffiles. (#131633)
- * Make update-alternatives --display support --quiet. (#336091)
- * Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps check build-essential. (#402901)
- * Fix pointless use of strdup. (#379027)
- * Propagate --admindir to programs run from maintainer scritpts. (#97076)
- * Fix quotes? <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html>
- TODO
- ====
- Old TODO entries from Scott:
- libdpkg:
- * cut compat.c into little pieces and move them to optlib
- * modify database to store per-file flags
- * store checksums and stat data in per-file flags
- optlib:
- * add fnmatch, IRIX5 doesn't have it
- start-stop-daemon
- * capabilities support
- * don't close FD's
- dpkg
- * integrate debconf (add new status)
- * allow external program to specify how to handle conffiles
- * try to remove directories again after removing conffiles
- * verify Enhances works (ie don't trigger some assertion)
- * refactor processarc.c
- * add test to see if a file should really be installed and optionally
- skip it
- * dpkg --reconfigure <pkg> <pkg>
- <pkg>.postinst reconfigure <ver>
- Fail if pkg is not in the configured state.
- * dpkg --call-maint-script=<script> --maint-script-arg=<arg>
- --maint-script-arg=<arg> <pkg> <pkg>
- dpkg will not allow <script> to be one of {pre,post}{inst,rm}. Only
- unknown scripts can be called this way. dpkg will also not keep track
- of any state for these scripts.
- Fix:
- <joeyh_> package a conflicted with old versions of package b. package b
- conficted with old versions of package a. I had the old versions of both
- installed, and told dpkg to install the new versions of a and b
- simulantaneously. It refused.
- dselect:
- * support Enhances
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Old TODO entries from IWJ:
- Here are some currently-known inadequacies:
- urgent
- * Conflicts << installation ordering
- * Version numbers in pre-depends stuff
- * Search for all pre-depends things at once, bomb out if any not found
- * _always_ show section in --yet-to-unpack
- * automatically do --yet-to-unpack in installation methods
- * check depending packages when installing new version.
- * Several things ought to be configurable but aren't.
- * Filenames containing newlines. Conffile names containing spaces.
- * dpkg --status for virtual packages
- * openpgp signatures in the package archive
- other stuff unlikely to get done soon
- * Automatically remove <file>.gz if <file> can't be found ? and maybe,
- remove <file> if <file.gz> can't be found? Big mess when we start
- thinking about bz2 :/
- * Local version number (using non-numeric epoch, perhaps, or better yet,
- a --local option in dpkg, so that it marks this package as a local install
- (when running dpkg -i)? Keeps it from being listed as obsolete, and maybe
- from being considered for auto-upgrades (apt-get needs to know about this
- too)
- * Filename field generated by --record-avail
- * handle split packages somehow.
- * understand Replaces in dselect
- * diversions list as control archive entry
- * single maintainer script, and new package getting there first
- * dpkg -s show something for virtual packages
- * local conffiles, aswell as local files that dpkg should check before
- overwriting
- * hooks
- * dselect per-half focus and keybindings improvements.
- !missing bug report #1555!
- * floppy map (where are the files)
- * how to change case of package names
- * support for adding files to dpkg's file lists
- * `fake' or `null' packages
- * dpkg --query | -Q
- obsoleted so not done
- * version numbers not starting digit early.
- * dselect bottom window too large, and/or resize
- * `template' file giving default selections of dselect.
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