Hi! On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 01:12:50 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Package: dput > Version: 0.9.6.3 > Severity: wishlist
> the PTS has a great feature which shows if a package is involved in an > ongoing (library) transition. > > Not everyone checks the PTS though before making an upload. > As a result, it happens quite often that uncoordinated uploads disrupt > ongoing transitions. > > It would be great if dput could query before the upload if the package > is involved in a transition and present this information to the uploader > with the option to continue or abort (with abort being the default). > > The release team tracks ongoing transitions and exports a yaml file at > http://release.debian.org/transitions/export/packages.yaml I implemented this for dupload some time ago, and coordinated with the release team to see whether this was something they'd like and if they had any specific shape requirements, etc. The discussion is at #1060367. The dupload implementation is at: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dupload.git/tree/hooks/debian-transition Thanks, Guillem
