4 <https://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 * Code cleanup / bug fixes:
20 - Get rid of static variables inside functions.
21 - Coalesce hash and checksum functions.
22 - Split modstatdb_rw into mode and flags.
23 - Move fd function out of mlib.
24 - Cleanup status chars -> strings hardcoded mappings all over the place.
25 (Fix tied field enum with its dselect description (pkgdisplay.cc))
26 - Refactor src/unpack.c.
27 - Split dpkg.h into independent headers.
28 - Do more unused header include removal.
29 - Add needed includes to all header files.
30 - Get rid of useless "unsigned" modifiers.
31 - Use enums for currently hardcoded literals (replacingfilesandsaid,
32 filetriggers_edited, etc).
33 - Do not use nfmalloc (and friends) for non in-core db memory.
34 - Call nffreeall on exit (need to detangle nfmalloc from non-db first).
35 - Add a size parameter to the buffer API to avoid some useless
37 - Handle instdir '/' separator consistently.
38 - Check if caching selinux context for second call is possible.
39 - Add missing newlines in --version output.
40 - Handle symlinks in statcmd.c statdb_node_apply().
41 - Fix dpkg termination on SIGPIPE from status-fd.
44 - Add fnmatch, IRIX5 doesn't have it.
47 - Add example to dpkg-scanfoo manpages?
48 - Merge synopsis lines in dpkg-triggers.
49 - Check all command vs action.
50 - Check usage of '|' instead of ', '.
51 - Check position of short option before long option.
52 - Fix dpkg man page, refs to dpkg-deb and dpkg-split, etc.
56 - Check dpkg-divert strings for new and fixable ones.
57 - Standardize translated error messages in the perl code to avoid useless
59 - Check https://d-i.alioth.debian.org/spellcheck/level5/index.html
61 * Discuss and implement
62 https://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/debian/docs/origin.proposal
64 * Deprecate --force-not-root flag (remove modstatdb_rw rootneeded flags).
66 * Test and re-enable --command-fd.
68 * Check --no-act for log_action().
70 * Add non-regression tests for Dpkg::Source::*
72 * Add UTF-8 support to all programs.
74 * Allow packages to register additional files, declare ownership of files for
75 dpkg -S and -L without having dpkg act on this (.psuedolist?).
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 - Support for output format. (#214566)
82 * Fix conflicting action -%c, when short is 0.
84 * We should set our own obstack_alloc_failed_handler.
86 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
88 Old TODO entries from Scott:
91 * capabilities support
94 * allow external program to specify how to handle conffiles
95 * dpkg --call-maint-script=<script> --maint-script-arg=<arg>
96 --maint-script-arg=<arg> <pkg> <pkg>
97 dpkg will not allow <script> to be one of {pre,post}{inst,rm}. Only
98 unknown scripts can be called this way. dpkg will also not keep track
99 of any state for these scripts.
102 <joeyh_> package a conflicted with old versions of package b. package b
103 conflicted with old versions of package a. I had the old versions of both
104 installed, and told dpkg to install the new versions of a and b
105 simultaneously. It refused.
110 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
112 Old TODO entries from IWJ:
114 Here are some currently-known inadequacies:
117 * Conflicts << installation ordering
118 * Version numbers in pre-depends stuff
119 * Search for all pre-depends things at once, bomb out if any not found
120 * _always_ show section in --yet-to-unpack
121 * automatically do --yet-to-unpack in installation methods
122 * check depending packages when installing new version.
123 * Several things ought to be configurable but aren't.
124 * Filenames containing newlines. Conffile names containing spaces.
125 * dpkg --status for virtual packages
126 * openpgp signatures in the package archive
128 other stuff unlikely to get done soon
129 * Automatically remove <file>.gz if <file> can't be found ? and maybe,
130 remove <file> if <file.gz> can't be found? Big mess when we start
131 thinking about bz2 :/
132 * Local version number (using non-numeric epoch, perhaps, or better yet,
133 a --local option in dpkg, so that it marks this package as a local install
134 (when running dpkg -i)? Keeps it from being listed as obsolete, and maybe
135 from being considered for auto-upgrades (apt-get needs to know about this
137 * Filename field generated by --record-avail
138 * understand Replaces in dselect
139 * diversions list as control archive entry
140 * single maintainer script, and new package getting there first
141 * local conffiles, as well as local files that dpkg should check before
143 * dselect per-half focus and keybindings improvements.
144 !missing bug report #1555!
146 * how to change case of package names
147 * 'fake' or 'null' packages