[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Getting rid of the NEW step for binaries ?

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello,

Le 10/10/2019 à 21:13, Chris Lamb a écrit :
> Hi Sylvestre,
> 
>>> In terms of a concrete solution your suggestion of a package whitelist
>>> is a good one -- I would only add that I personally would like the
>>> potential option of being able to additionally whitelist transitions
>>> along the linesof "libfoo1" → "libfoo2".
>>
>> Do you know where in the code we should inject the whitelist management ?
> 
> Alas not. I suspect some archeology on salsa and/or on (un-merged) Git
> branches could be fruitful to find some previous attempts, but I have
> about as much insight as you on this one I'm afraid...

So, I guess the issue isn't politic but technical. And the issue is far from trivial
or someone would have implemented it a while ago?


Does the change have to be implemented in https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/dak/blob/master/dak/process_new.py ?

Thanks
Sylvestre