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@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 				 TODO
 				 ====
 
+[NB: I use this as a thought record/scribble, not everything on here
+     makes sense and/or is actually ever going to get done, so IIWY I
+     wouldn't use it as gospel for the future of katie or as a TODO
+     list for random hacking.]
+
 ================================================================================
 
 Actually Urgent
@@ -8,9 +13,17 @@ Actually Urgent
 
   o UrgencyLog stuff should minimize it's bombing out(?)
   o Log stuff should open the log file g+w lamer
+<aj> elmo_home: (although, if you haven't already, you might want to add a `Reject: invalid character in Version:' check to katie sometime)
+<aj> elmo_home: (at least while auric's apt doesn't handle ~'s)
 
 More Urgent
 -----------
+
+  o permissions (paranoia, group write, etc.) configurability and overhaul
+
+  o <M>ove option for lisa byhand proecessing
+
+  o rene could do with overrides
  
   o db_access.get_location_id should handle the lack of archive_id properly
 
@@ -26,9 +39,6 @@ More Urgent
 
   o lisa doesn't trap signals from fernanda properly
 
-  o jenna sucks; should be rewritten to use python arrays rather than
-    multiple selects, similar to heidi/natalie rewrites.
-
   o queued and/or perl on sparc stable sucks - reimplement it.
 
   o aj's bin nmu changes
@@ -43,10 +53,10 @@ More Urgent
     o trap fernanda exiting
     o distinguish binary only versus others (neuro)
 
-  o change utils.copy to try rename() first
-
   o cache changes parsed from ordering (careful tho: would be caching
-    .changes from world writable incoming, not holding)
+    .changes from world writable incoming, not holding); katie should
+    certainly be using .katie files, not parsing changes, that's just
+    silly.
 
   o katie doesn't recognise binonlyNMUs correctly in terms of telling
     who their source is; source-must-exist does, but the info is not
@@ -82,14 +92,22 @@ More Urgent
 Less Urgent
 -----------
 
+  o change utils.copy to try rename() first
+
+  o [hard, long term] unchecked -> accepted should go into the db, not
+  a suite, but similar.  this would allow katie to get even faster,
+  make madison more useful, decomplexify specialacceptedautobuild and
+  generally be more sane.  may even be helpful to have e.g. new in the
+  DB, so that we avoid corner cases like the .orig.tar.gz disappearing
+  'cos the package has been entirely removed but was still on
+  stayofexecution when it entered new.
+
   o Logging [mostly done] (todo: rhona (hard), .. ?)
 
   o jennifer is leaking file descriptors..
 
   o the tar extractor class doesn't need to be redone for each package
 
-  o interrupting of stracing jennifer causes exceptions errors from apt_inst calls 
-
   o reverse of source-must-exist; i.e. binary-for-source-must-not-exist
   o REJECT reminders in shania.
   o fernanda should check for conflicts and warn about them visavis priority [rmurray]
@@ -107,7 +125,6 @@ Less Urgent
 
   o auto-purge out-of-date stuff from non-free/contrib so that testing and stuff works
   o doogie's binary -> source index
-  o Add urgency + installed date to the DB for aj/testing (? still needed ?)
   o jt's web stuff, matt's changelog stuff (overlap)
 
   o [Hard] Need to merge non-non-US and non-US DBs.
@@ -139,6 +156,7 @@ Less Urgent
 
  * Harder:
 
+    o interrupting of stracing jennifer causes exceptions errors from apt_inst calls 
     o dependency checking (esp. stable) (partially done)
     o override checks sucks; it needs to track changes made by the
       maintainer and pass them onto ftpmaster instead of warning the
@@ -147,7 +165,7 @@ Less Urgent
     o Revisit linking of binary->source in install() in katie.
     o Fix component handling in overrides (aj)
     o Fix lack of entires in source overrides (aj)
-    o direport misreports things as section 'devel'
+    o direport misreports things as section 'devel' (? we don't use direport)
     o vrfy check of every Maintainer+Changed-By address; valid for 3 months.
     o binary-all should be done on a per-source, per-architecture package
       basis to avoid, e.g. the perl-modules problem.
@@ -161,7 +179,7 @@ Less Urgent
     o katie/jenna/rhona/whatever needs to clear out .changes
       files from p-u when removing stuff superseded by newer versions.
       [but for now we have halle]
-    o test sig checking stuff in test/ (stupid thing is not modularized)
+    o test sig checking stuff in test/ (stupid thing is not modularized due to global abuse)
     o when encountering suspicous things (e.g. file tainting) do something more drastic
 
  * Easy:
@@ -174,7 +192,6 @@ Less Urgent
     o melanie should behave better with -a and without -b; see
       gcc-defaults removal for an example.
     o Reject on misconfigured kernel-package uploads
-    o denise abuses sys.stdout == badly  
     o utils.extract_component_from_section: main/utils -> main/utils, main rather than utils, main
     o Fix jennier to warn if run when not in incoming or p-u
     o katie should validate multi-suite uploads; only possible valid one