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). * 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 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? 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 .postinst reconfigure Fail if pkg is not in the configured state. * dpkg --call-maint-script=