Hi,

the PTS has a great feature which shows if a package is involved in an
ongoing (library) transition.

Not everyone checks the PTS though before making an upload.
As a result, it happens quite often that uncoordinated uploads disrupt
ongoing transitions.

It would be great if dput could query before the upload if the package
is involved in a transition and present this information to the uploader
with the option to continue or abort (with abort being the default).

The release team tracks ongoing transitions and exports a yaml file at
http://release.debian.org/transitions/export/packages.yaml

Thanks for considering,
Michael

Control: retitle -1 dput: warn if a package is involved in a transition
Control: block -1 by 477919

I believe this and other checks will be much more feasible with the
proposed hook directories feature (bug#477919).

Hi!

I implemented this for dupload some time ago, and coordinated with the
release team to see whether this was something they'd like and if they
had any specific shape requirements, etc. The discussion is at #1060367.

The dupload implementation is at:

https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dupload.git/tree/hooks/debian-transition

Thanks,
Guillem