Re: Idea for dealing with transitions

[Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org>]

Hi Lucas,

I have a variant of your idea:

Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> 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 mentioned in a hints files
> for each source package in that list, display a big warning on the PTS:
>    This package is mentioned in an hints file. It might be part of an
>    ongoing transition. Please don't upload without asking permission from
>    the release team, or you might add a long delay to the transition of a
>    lot of packages to testing.

- parse the hints files, get a list of packages (+version) that are hinted
- get a list of source packages where:
  - version in testing != version in unstable
  - version in unstable is mentioned in a hints files
  - filter this list with the list of packages that are being hinted.
for each source package in that list:
  -  make dak reject the package with "package $package_$version 
     in unstable is bein tried to transition into testing. Please
     contact debian-release@ for details."

I could imagine that this would make least efford to the release team.


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