per-version hints proposal

[Jon Turney]

On 09/12/2016 11:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  9 11:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> I don't think this is feasible.  The maintainer should have control
>> over the promotion from test to curr.  I'm not affected by this since
>> I generate new versions as soon as I promote, so this is more maintainers
>> like JonY, for whom a rebuild and reupload of the gcc packages just to
>> promote test to curr is quite a burden.

I mentioned 'ask for the package to be promoted' first, assuming that 
would be the first method tried.

[...]
>
> - cygport gets a new command, e. g.
>
>     cygport foo.cygport {promote|untest|currify}
>
>   This command has only one purpose.  It creates and uploades new
>   $PVR.hint files without the test: marker to the maintainers upload
>   area.
>
>   Shouldn't these files be picked up by calm and overwrite the existing
>   PVR.hint files and the test marker is gone?

Embarrassingly, this was supposed to work, but didn't.  Thanks to eblake 
for being the guinea pig for discovering that.  I deployed a fix for that.