7 * Review this file and remove or update the old entries.
9 * Triage as much bugs as possible to get the bug count below 300 ;) and
10 merge as much patches as possible.
12 * Remove Conflicts on dpkg-dev exact versions before the release.
17 * Make dpkg bootstrappable.
23 - Coalesce status_pipe handling.
24 - blankfoo embedded code.
25 - static variables inside functions.
26 - Coalesce admindir / infodir / foodir generation.
27 - Get rid of setjmp (at least in the general case, keep for dpkg itself?)
28 - Coalesce hash and checksum functions.
29 - Move parseerr arguments into a struct.
30 - Move fd and block function out of mlib.
31 - Cleanup status chars -> strings hardcoded mappings all over the place.
32 (Fix tied field enum with its dselect description (pkgdisplay.cc))
33 - Refactor src/processarc.c.
34 - Make sure all vsnprintf callers are checking the return value, as the
35 system version will not ohsite on us.
38 - Add fnmatch, IRIX5 doesn't have it.
39 - Add strnlen (GNU extension).
40 - Cut lib/compat.c into little pieces and move them here.
42 * Add Wig&Pen source package generation support.
44 * Get rid of install-info.
46 * Add multiarch support.
48 * Merge debconf support (add new status).
49 - dpkg --reconfigure <pkg> <pkg>
50 <pkg>.postinst reconfigure <ver>
51 Fail if pkg is not in the configured state.
52 - Merge dpkg-reconfigure.
54 * Merge dpkg-cross functionality.
58 * Start exposing libdpkg.
59 - Split dpkg.h into dpkg-priv.h.
60 - Add needed includes to all header files.
62 * Add example to dpkg-scanfoo manpages?
64 * The cleverer conffile support bug fixed.
66 * Add UTF-8 support to all programs.
68 * Modify database to store per-file flags.
69 - Store checksums and stat data in per-file flags.
70 - Add md5sums and/or sha1sums package support. (#155676)
72 * Allow packages to register additional files, declare ownership of files for
73 dpkg -S and -L without having dpkg act on this (.psuedolist?).
75 * Some kind of test-suite (Esteban).
77 * Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps easier to use by other programs such as pbuilder
78 or sbuild, so that they can start using the new architecture wildcards
80 - New command line arguments to retrieve Build-Depends. (#114774)
81 - Support for output format. (#214566)
83 * Remove conffile background support? (#38334)
85 * Make dpkg-deb --build check for duped conffiles. (#131633)
87 * Make update-alternatives --display support --quiet. (#336091)
89 * Propagate --admindir to programs run from maintainer scritpts. (#97076)
91 * Fix quotes? <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html>
97 Old TODO entries from Scott:
100 * capabilities support
104 * allow external program to specify how to handle conffiles
105 * try to remove directories again after removing conffiles
106 * verify Enhances works (ie don't trigger some assertion)
107 * add test to see if a file should really be installed and optionally
109 * dpkg --call-maint-script=<script> --maint-script-arg=<arg>
110 --maint-script-arg=<arg> <pkg> <pkg>
111 dpkg will not allow <script> to be one of {pre,post}{inst,rm}. Only
112 unknown scripts can be called this way. dpkg will also not keep track
113 of any state for these scripts.
116 <joeyh_> package a conflicted with old versions of package b. package b
117 conficted with old versions of package a. I had the old versions of both
118 installed, and told dpkg to install the new versions of a and b
119 simulantaneously. It refused.
124 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
126 Old TODO entries from IWJ:
128 Here are some currently-known inadequacies:
131 * Conflicts << installation ordering
132 * Version numbers in pre-depends stuff
133 * Search for all pre-depends things at once, bomb out if any not found
134 * _always_ show section in --yet-to-unpack
135 * automatically do --yet-to-unpack in installation methods
136 * check depending packages when installing new version.
137 * Several things ought to be configurable but aren't.
138 * Filenames containing newlines. Conffile names containing spaces.
139 * dpkg --status for virtual packages
140 * openpgp signatures in the package archive
142 other stuff unlikely to get done soon
143 * Automatically remove <file>.gz if <file> can't be found ? and maybe,
144 remove <file> if <file.gz> can't be found? Big mess when we start
145 thinking about bz2 :/
146 * Local version number (using non-numeric epoch, perhaps, or better yet,
147 a --local option in dpkg, so that it marks this package as a local install
148 (when running dpkg -i)? Keeps it from being listed as obsolete, and maybe
149 from being considered for auto-upgrades (apt-get needs to know about this
151 * Filename field generated by --record-avail
152 * handle split packages somehow.
153 * understand Replaces in dselect
154 * diversions list as control archive entry
155 * single maintainer script, and new package getting there first
156 * local conffiles, aswell as local files that dpkg should check before
159 * dselect per-half focus and keybindings improvements.
160 !missing bug report #1555!
162 * floppy map (where are the files)
163 * how to change case of package names
164 * support for adding files to dpkg's file lists
165 * `fake' or `null' packages