[dput-ng-maint] Bug#802175: Please warn before upload if a package is involved in a transition

[Michael Biebl]

Package: dput-ng
Version: 1.10
Severity: wishlist

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


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dput-ng depends on:
ii  python-dput  1.10
pn  python:any   <none>

Versions of packages dput-ng recommends:
ii  bash-completion  1:2.1-4.2

dput-ng suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information