Hi! On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 03:08:04 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Package: dput-ng > Version: 1.10 > Severity: wishlist
> If a package is involved in a transition, uploading a new version can > interrupt this transition. Especially if this is a new upstream release, > and e.g. it fails to build on some architectures. > > Ongoing transitions are nowadays tracked via > https://release.debian.org/transitions/ and the PTS nicely shows this > information. Unfortunately not every maintainers checks > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/<$pkg> before making any upload. > > Therefore it would be great, if dput would query the PTS before > uploading packages and if the package is involved in a transition, ask > the user for explicit confirmation before proceeding. 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
