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

Hi!

On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 15:40:47 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.

And that changes depending on the stage of the freeze we are in. For
example I uploaded a package with minor routine updates for the release,
several days before the hard freeze, and thought it would get in even
if crossing over the hard-freeze (as it has autopkgtests), as I had
forgotten (as I usually do in these cases) that it was a key package.
Having this information available in the tracker and the DDPO would
probably have helped me in that case. (This particular case is not a
big deal, because if there are migration worthy changes I'd need to
do, I can always revert and request an unblock, but it's not ideal.)

Thanks,
Guillem