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-release@lists.debian.org";>debian-release</a></tt>
if an upload is really necessary.
</p>
</div>
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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.
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