If a package is involved in a transition, uploading a new version can
interrupt this transition. Especially if this is a new upstream release,
and e.g. it fails to build on some architectures.

Ongoing transitions are nowadays tracked via
https://release.debian.org/transitions/ and the PTS nicely shows this
information. Unfortunately not every maintainers checks
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/<$pkg> before making any upload.

Therefore it would be great, if dput would query the PTS before
uploading packages and if the package is involved in a transition, ask
the user for explicit confirmation before proceeding.


regards,
Michael

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