Adding upstream version 1.19.8.upstream/1.19.8upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+RoadMap
+=======
+
+  <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap>
+
+TODO
+====
+
+1.19.x
+~~~~~~
+
+ * Review this file and remove or update the old entries.
+
+ * Look for FIXME and XXX items in the source.
+
+ * Triage as much bugs as possible to get the bug count below 300 ;) and
+   merge as much patches as possible.
+
+ * Code cleanup / bug fixes:
+   - Get rid of static variables inside functions.
+   - Coalesce hash and checksum functions.
+   - Split modstatdb_rw into mode and flags.
+   - Move fd function out of mlib.
+   - Cleanup status chars -> strings hardcoded mappings all over the place.
+     (Fix tied field enum with its dselect description (pkgdisplay.cc))
+   - Refactor src/unpack.c.
+   - Split dpkg.h into independent headers.
+   - Do more unused header include removal.
+   - Add needed includes to all header files.
+   - Get rid of useless "unsigned" modifiers.
+   - Use enums for currently hardcoded literals (replacingfilesandsaid,
+     filetriggers_edited, etc).
+   - Do not use nfmalloc (and friends) for non in-core db memory.
+   - Call nffreeall on exit (need to detangle nfmalloc from non-db first).
+   - Add a size parameter to the buffer API to avoid some useless
+     pipe+fork+copy.
+   - Handle instdir '/' separator consistently.
+   - Check if caching selinux context for second call is possible.
+   - Add missing newlines in --version output.
+   - Handle symlinks in statcmd.c statdb_node_apply().
+   - Fix dpkg termination on SIGPIPE from status-fd.
+
+ * libcompat cleanup:
+   - Add fnmatch, IRIX5 doesn't have it.
+
+ * Man pages:
+   - Add example to dpkg-scanfoo manpages?
+   - Merge synopsis lines in dpkg-triggers.
+   - Check all command vs action.
+   - Check usage of '|' instead of ', '.
+   - Check position of short option before long option.
+   - Fix dpkg man page, refs to dpkg-deb and dpkg-split, etc.
+   - Fix «.  ».
+
+ * L10n:
+   - Check dpkg-divert strings for new and fixable ones.
+   - Standardize translated error messages in the perl code to avoid useless
+     work for translators.
+   - Check https://d-i.alioth.debian.org/spellcheck/level5/index.html
+
+ * Discuss and implement
+   https://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/debian/docs/origin.proposal
+
+ * Deprecate --force-not-root flag (remove modstatdb_rw rootneeded flags).
+
+ * Test and re-enable --command-fd.
+
+ * Check --no-act for log_action().
+
+ * Add non-regression tests for Dpkg::Source::*
+
+ * Add UTF-8 support to all programs.
+
+ * Allow packages to register additional files, declare ownership of files for
+   dpkg -S and -L without having dpkg act on this (.psuedolist?).
+
+ * 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.
+   - Support for output format. (#214566)
+
+ * Fix conflicting action -%c, when short is 0.
+
+ * We should set our own obstack_alloc_failed_handler.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Old TODO entries from Scott:
+
+start-stop-daemon
+* capabilities support
+
+dpkg
+* allow external program to specify how to handle conffiles
+* 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
+      conflicted 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
+      simultaneously. 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
+ * understand Replaces in dselect
+ * diversions list as control archive entry
+ * single maintainer script, and new package getting there first
+ * local conffiles, as well as local files that dpkg should check before
+   overwriting
+ * dselect per-half focus and keybindings improvements.
+   !missing bug report #1555!
+
+ * how to change case of package names
+ * 'fake' or 'null' packages
+ * dpkg --query | -Q