Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

2008-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 06:29:40 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Maybe we could start by a simpler solution, not involving dak: > - parse the hints files > - get a list of source packages where: > - version in testing != version in unstable > - version in unstable is mentioned in a hints files

Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

2008-01-14 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Hi Lucas, I have a variant of your idea: Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe we could start by a simpler solution, not involving dak: > - parse the hints files > - get a list of source packages where: > - version in testing != version in unstable > - version in unstable is me

Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

2008-01-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/01/08 at 21:20 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>> Proposal: > >>> Implement a new file, that works similarly to the hints file, but that > >>> causes uploads to un

Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

2008-01-14 Thread Otavio Salvador
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Proposal: >>> Implement a new file, that works similarly to the hints file, but that >>> causes uploads to unstable for selected packages to be rejected. Thus, >>> if a mainta

Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

2008-01-14 Thread Luk Claes
Otavio Salvador wrote: > Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Proposal: >> Implement a new file, that works similarly to the hints file, but that >> causes uploads to unstable for selected packages to be rejected. Thus, >> if a maintainer uploads, it won't get through so that it w

Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

2008-01-14 Thread Otavio Salvador
Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Proposal: > Implement a new file, that works similarly to the hints file, but that > causes uploads to unstable for selected packages to be rejected. Thus, > if a maintainer uploads, it won't get through so that it won't get in > the way of the tr

Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

2008-01-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11261 March 1977, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Implement a new file, that works similarly to the hints file, but that > causes uploads to unstable for selected packages to be rejected. Thus, > if a maintainer uploads, it won't get through so that it won't get in > the way of the transition. >

Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

2008-01-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Petter Reinholdtsen [Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:44:45 +0100]: > One issue to try to avoid is for such blocks to last longer than the > transition they are supposed to help. Would it be an idea for the > format to include a reference to the transition, for example using a > package and version number t

Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

2008-01-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:00:23PM -0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Motivation: > For some time now, one of the things that the Release Team has had to > deal with are complex transitions. One of the requirements for making a > transition work is that maintainers of involved packages must no

Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

2008-01-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Margarita Manterola] > I talked about this with Dato and Ganneff. They suggested the file > should be a yaml file, listing source packages, and the reason for the > blocking (i.e. the transition they are involved in). > > Ganneff volunteered to prepare the patch after the format of the file is >

Idea for dealing with transitions

2008-01-11 Thread Margarita Manterola
Motivation: For some time now, one of the things that the Release Team has had to deal with are complex transitions. One of the requirements for making a transition work is that maintainers of involved packages must not upload. However, for whatever reasons, some maintainers do upload, and thus