On 2026-05-07 06:04, Paul Gevers wrote:
After a discussion with Mechtilde yesterday here at the MiniDebConf in
Hamburg, we realized that the deal the Release Team had with the former
ftp-master team might not have been transferred. I assume you are aware
that the Release Team requests [1] maintainers to start transitions in
experimental in principle. At least during the freeze, the ftp-master
team was helping out on that front by not accepting uploads to unstable
that would start a transition. I think they occasionally also pointed
out the procedures and prevented accidental transitions from starting
without alignment with us.
As you now have much automation in place, I'm wondering if you could
you help us with this? As a first step, maybe a big fat warning in the
review pages for binNEW package could already help in some cases. And
maybe holding of acceptance in dubious cases would help too.
Paul
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
Happy to collaborate here. Is there an API or some machine-readable list
which packages to hold back? How was that communicated in the past?
Best,
-rt
