Bug#1106076: please consider to indicate freeze and/or key package status in the tracker

On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 12:35:56PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
>On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 01:56:42PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> the release team points people to the tracker to find out about a
>> package's migration status. I would be nice to know what would happen to
>> a package when it gets uploaded during a freeze. Maybe it is possible to
>> indicate things like "this is a key package and needs a manual unblock
>> to migrate at this time during the freeze" or "this package only has
>> superficial autopkgtests and needs a manual unblock to migrate" etc.
>
>https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/devscripts says
>∙ ∙ blocked by freeze: is a key package (Follow the freeze policy when applying for an unblock)
>
>https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/diffoscope says
>∙ ∙ not blocked: has successful autopkgtest
>
>https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-security-support says
>∙ ∙ Ignoring block request by freeze, due to unblock request by sramacher
>(and before that it said it was blocked by the freeze...)
>
>so I think most of what you want is there already?

As Far as I know, this informtion only displays when a package is 
actually waiting to migrate. I'd like to know how much pain I am likely 
to feel when I do a new unstable upload.

Grüße
Marc