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Introduction to the bug system request server
There is a mailserver which can send the bug reports and indices as
plain text on request.
To use it you send a mail message to request@bugs.debian.org. The
Subject of the message is ignored, except for generating the Subject
of the reply.
The body you send should be a series of commands, one per line. You'll
receive a reply which looks like a transcript of your message being
interpreted, with a response to each command. No notifications are
sent to anyone for the commands listed here and the mail isn't logged
anywhere publicly available.
Any text on a line starting with a hash sign # is ignored; the server
will stop processing when it finds a line with a control terminator (
quit, thank you, or two hyphens are common examples). It will also
stop if it encounters too many unrecognised or badly-formatted
commands. If no commands are successfully handled it will send the
help text for the server.
Commands available
send bugnumber
send-detail bugnumber
Requests the transcript for the bug report in question.
send-detail sends all of the "boring" messages in the
transcript as well, such as the various auto-acks.
index [full]
index-summary by-package
index-summary by-number
Request the full index (with full details, and including done
and forwarded reports), or the summary sorted by package or by
number, respectively.
index-maint
Requests the index page giving the list of maintainers with
bugs (open and recently-closed) in the tracking system.
index maint maintainer
Requests the index pages of bugs in the system for the
maintainer maintainer. The search term is an exact match. The
bug index will be sent in a separate message.
index-packages
Requests the index page giving the list of packages with bugs
(open and recently-closed) in the tracking system.
index packages package
Requests the index pages of bugs in the system for the package
package. The search term is an exact match. The bug index will
be sent in a separate message.
send-unmatched [this|0]
send-unmatched last|-1
send-unmatched old|-2
Requests logs of messages not matched to a particular bug
report, for this week, last week and the week before. (Each
week ends on a Wednesday.)
getinfo filename
Request a file containing information about package(s) and or
maintainer(s) - the files available are:
maintainers
The unified list of packages' maintainers, as used by the
tracking system. This is derived from information in the
Packages files, override files and pseudo-packages files.
override.distribution
override.distribution.non-free
override.distribution.contrib
override.experimental
Information about the priorities and sections of packages
and overriding values for the maintainers. This
information is used by the process which generates the
Packages files in the FTP archive. Information is
available for each of the main distribution trees
available, by their codewords.
pseudo-packages.description
pseudo-packages.maintainers
List of descriptions and maintainers respectively for
pseudo-packages.
refcard
Requests that the mailservers' reference card be sent in plain
ASCII.
help
Requests that this help document be sent by email in plain
ASCII.
quit
stop
thank
thanks
thankyou
thank you
--
Stops processing at this point of the message. After this you
may include any text you like, and it will be ignored. You can
use this to include longer comments than are suitable for #,
for example for the benefit of human readers of your message
(reading it via the tracking system logs or due to a CC or
BCC).
#...
One-line comment. The # must be at the start of the line.
debug level
Sets the debugging level to level, which should be a
nonnegative integer. 0 is no debugging; 1 is usually
sufficient. The debugging output appears in the transcript. It
is not likely to be useful to general users of the bug system.
There is a reference card for the mailservers, available via the WWW,
in bug-mailserver-refcard.txt or by email using the refcard command
(see above).
If you wish to manipulate bug reports you should use the
control@bugs.debian.org address, which understands a superset of the
commands listed above. This is described in another document,
available on the WWW, in the file bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt, or by
sending help to control@bugs.
In case you are reading this as a plain text file or via email: an
HTML version is available via the bug system main contents page
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/.
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Debian BTS administrators <owner@bugs.debian.org>
Debian bug tracking system
Copyright © 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997, 2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd,
1994-1997 Ian Jackson.
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