TRANSITION-CHECK(1)

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💖 TRANSITION-CHECK 💖

okay bestie, so transition-check is a lil program from the Debian Utilities fam (section 1 of the manual, iykyk) and she has ONE job: tell you if the source packages you're about to upload are caught up in a transition where uploads to unstable are currently blocked. sniff test for transitions. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

transition-check --help|--version

transition-check [-f|--filename=FILENAME] [source package list]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea 🫖 — transition-check looks at all the source packages you hand it and checks whether any of them are involved in a transition for which uploads to unstable are currently blocked. like it's giving bouncer at the club door, but for package uploads. no cap. 🚫

and if you're feeling lazy (valid) and hand her neither a filename nor a list of packages? she'll just go grab the source package name straight out of debian/control herself. independent queen behavior honestly. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -f, --filename=filename — read a source package name out of filename, which should be a Debian package control file or a .changes file, and add that package to the list of packages to check. lowkey the only option but she carries the whole operation fr. ✨

🦋 EXIT STATUS 🦋

the exit status is basically the whole moment of truth — it tells you whether any of the packages you examined got caught up in a transition. 🌈

  1. 0 — either --help or --version was used, OR none of the packages examined was involved in a transition. clean. immaculate. slay. 💖
  2. 1 — at least one package examined is involved in a current transition. 😭 not the blocked upload era.

👑 LICENSE 👑

this code is copyright by Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>, all rights reserved. 🫶

this program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. like none. zero. she is not your safety net bestie. 💀

you are free to redistribute this code under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. 🌱

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> — the icon, the moment, the legend. 👑

and that's the whole page babes!! 🎀 this lil doc came to you courtesy of Debian Utilities, dated 2026-09-21 — so go check those transitions, stay unblocked, and remember: debian/control always has your back. bye bestie, mwah 💋✨🦋

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