Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > On 17-12-2007 18:35, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> On 11236 March 1977, Steve Langasek wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:48:48AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: >>>> So, as maintainer of C++ packages that use apt and are involved in apt >>>> transitions every so often, I would like to have some sort of handy way >>>> to know "you're free to upload to sid" or "hang on a sec, or upload to >>>> experimental". A way that possibly doesn't require following both >>>> deity@ and debian-release@ regularly. >>> - run the commands "grep-excuses libept; grep-excuses libept/i386" >>> - look for any Depends: lines >>> - look at the testing transition page for those dependencies on >>> bjorn.haxx.se: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=apt- if it >>> looks hairy, ask >>> That's going to catch 99% of the problematic cases, and is far more scalable >>> than to have the release team try to notify all affected maintainers >>> whenever there's an ongoing transition. (Perhaps not more scalable than >>> having dput warn, but the above is something any maintainer can do for >>> themselves today.) >> I guess there is no scriptable way to do that? Ie. if it would be >> scriptable without too much guesses here and there I would love to add >> something into process-new that shows me if there is anything related to >> transitions with the package I just look at. Which would show such >> things as the cwidgets upload, or other uploads where the library >> package name changes due to soname, but where it would be better to >> wait a day or two more before it gets accepted to let the old version >> transition first, together with whatever depends on it... > > Just for the record, if it is scriptable, would make sense > to add such script in devscripts and advertise it to become common > practice, like "run lintian"?
Well like Steve said already, we should promote running grep-excuses and maybe point people at documentation if they don't understand it's output :-) Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
