Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[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
> decided.
>
> So, what do you think about it?

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 that is supposed to make it into testing
before the block is disabled, to make sure the block do not last
longer than it should?

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen