On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 02:11:23PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It would be nice if the PTS informed the maintainers that a package is > currently involved in some ongoing transition (to testing) so that > they can refrain from doing unnecessary uploads.
I've implemented a long time ago support for listing the packages that are blocked by ftp-master due to ongoing transitions. Here are the relevant lines from various files: ----- update_incoming.sh ----- # ongoing transitions nice_wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/transitions.yaml \ transitions.yaml ------------------------------ ---- other_to_xml.py ---- def read_transitions(fname): y = yaml.load(file(fname)) packages = {} # maps pkg to the _list_ of transitions they are involved in for id, transition in y.iteritems(): for pkg in transition['packages']: if not packages.has_key(pkg): packages[pkg] = [] packages[pkg].append(id) return packages ------------------------- ---- pts.xsl ---- <div class="warning"> <!-- XXX unappropriate <ul>, just to make the text looks like other boxes, should be fixed on the CSS side (getting rid of <ul>) --> <p>This package is part of <em><xsl:value-of select="$transno" /> ongoing testing transition<xsl:if test="$transno != '1'">s</xsl:if></em> (namely: <tt><xsl:value-of select="$translist" /></tt>). For more information see the <a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/transitions.yaml";>transition status file</a>.<br /> <em>Uploads to unstable will be rejected</em> while transitions are ongoing; you might want to upload to experimental in the meantime, or contact <tt><a href="mailto:debian-rele...@lists.debian.org";>debian-release</a></tt> if an upload is really necessary. </p> </div> ----------------- I've the impression that nowadays the Release Team does not use anymore ftp-master hard blocks (or quite sparingly). It would make sense to extend the *current* code (instead of implementing something entirely new) to emit the above warning in both cases: a) ftp-master block, b) transition listed in the transition tracker. The message might need generalization as well. JFYI, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences ...... http://upsilon.cc/zack ...... . . o Debian Project Leader ....... @zack on identi.ca ....... o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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