Improve contact-maintainers to warn about special instructions

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/secure-testing@35588 e39458fd-73e7-0310-bf30-c45bca0a0e42

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/contact-maintainers b/bin/contact-maintainers
index ca010901c9..b0061d98be 100755
--- a/bin/contact-maintainers
+++ b/bin/contact-maintainers
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import argparse
 import os
 import pwd
 import subprocess
+import sys
 import tempfile
 
 from jinja2 import Template
@@ -37,6 +38,8 @@ def get_uploaders(pkg):
 # Parse command line
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
     description='Get in touch with package maintainers')
+parser.add_argument('--force', action='store_true',
+                    help='Ignore safety checks')
 parser.add_argument('--lts', action='store_true',
                     help='Act as a member of the LTS team')
 parser.add_argument('--no-dsa', dest='no_dsa', action='store_true',
@@ -53,6 +56,13 @@ team = 'lts' if args.lts else 'sec'
 model = 'no-dsa' if args.no_dsa else 'update-planned'
 template_file = 'templates/{}-{}.txt'.format(team, model)
 
+# Basic check
+instructions = "packages/{}.txt".format(args.package)
+if os.path.exists(instructions) and not args.force:
+    print("Have a look at {}".format(instructions))
+    print("If you still want to run this script, run it with --force.")
+    sys.exit(1)
+
 # Generate the context
 
 # XXX: Once that 761859 is fixed, improve the logic here to: