Hi, Am Sat, Feb 07, 2026 at 09:21:18PM +0200 schrieb Ilias Tsitsimpis: > > 1. Is there any chance to automatically know what packages do influence > > the transition? I have made extremely good experiences by making > > some ITP bug blocking an RC bug in some other package. This relation > > influences the ranking of the package inside the new queue drastically. > > You might like to try this. > > If you see other machine obtainable signals influencing a transition > > please let the DFSG team know. > > I didn't know we can influence the ranking of the packages, this is really > interesting. Right now, there is nothing we can use to automatically bump > the priority for the Haskell packages currently in the NEW queue, but going > forward we could have ITP bugs blocking the transition bug > (https://bugs.debian.org/1123928). DFSG team, could we implement something > like this?
As I said this is implemented in the dashboard ranking system. You just need to do it. > > 2. Can you simply make a list of the blockers for the moment as long as > > the automated ranking is not implemented yet? > > The following packages are currently in the NEW queue (all of them less than > a day old) and are blocking the transition: > > * haskell-djot > * haskell-crypton-socks > * haskell-crypto-token > * haskell-text-iso8601 > * haskell-postgresql-libpq-pkgconfig I'm not a member of the team but I can perfectly imagine that these packages get preference soon. > We still have 10 more packages that will need to clear the NEW queue, will > work on them over the next days. I think it is fine if you either sent a list to thie dfsg-team email ... or just try making the ITP bugs blocking the transition bug to see how it works. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
