updated some of this, some we killed, some are obsolete, and some are new

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 34afdcddde0c95a7fade223e51248f8ac785c245..fb4f5045e6c3f8f72bf704c1f92e1b5158b9bb9d 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ urgent
  * Conflicts << installation ordering
  * Version numbers in pre-depends stuff
  * Search for all pre-depends things at once, bomb out if any not found
- * check description in dpkg-deb
  * field overflow in dpkg --list
  * _always_ show section in --yet-to-unpack
  * automatically do --yet-to-unpack in installation methods
@@ -19,25 +18,30 @@ urgent
  * start-stop-daemon process status check. 1480
  * remove old docs from /usr/doc/dpkg.
  * WTA: fix translations for dpkg --help which broke after adding --stop-after
+ * openpgp signatures in the package archive
 
 other stuff unlikely to get done soon
- * Automatically remove <file>.gz if <file> can't be found ?
- * Local version number (using non-numeric epoch, perhaps ?)
+ * Automatically remove <file>.gz if <file> can't be found ? and maybe,
+   remove <file> if <file.gz> can't be found? Bug 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
  * provide way for package to declare ownership of files for dpkg -S
-   and -L without having dpkg act on this
- * md5sum component in new .deb files
+   and -L without having dpkg act on this (.psuedolist?)
  * diversions list as control archive entry
  * single maintainer script, and new package getting there first
  * dpkg -s show something for virtual packages
  * settable defaults for update-rc.d
  * local conffiles
  * hooks
- * gzip -0 option for dpkg-deb
+ * gzip -0 option for dpkg-deb (probably easier to add a -z# option)
  * There is no documentation. 1526
  * newbie interface to dselect. 1037
- * `template' file giving default selections of dselect.
  * dselect per-half focus and keybindings improvements. 1555
  * floppy map (where are the files)
  * how to change case of package names
@@ -63,7 +67,10 @@ done
  * --purge remove empty directories which used too contain conffiles
  * conffiles handling options, including `replace removed files'
  * `diff' option at conffile prompt
+ * check description in dpkg-deb
 
 obsoleted so not done
  * version numbers not starting digit early.
  * dselect bottom window too large, and/or resize
+ * md5sum component in new .deb files
+ * `template' file giving default selections of dselect.