Feature request (is that feasable or who do you do it?)

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Hi, me again.

I was trying to extract infos from the BTS system automatically and
found it difficult to access specific infos. The web pages are not
realy maschine friendly.

Would it be feasable to add a cgi script to access the state of a bug
and details thereof. I suggest the following interface:

All queries use the bugnumber as ID. The return is a simple text file.
Each line in the textfile would contain one item "Field: content"

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bug-state.cgi?bug=196450
==>
Bug: #196450
Title: Simplecdrx: FTBFS with g++-3.3: Missing <cassert> include
Severity: serious
Package: simplecdrx
Reported by: Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 02:18:05 UTC
Tags: fixed, patch
Maintainer: Benoit Joly <benoit@debian.org>
Source: simplecdrx

A more extensive interface would be to allow the same arguments as the
web pages:

http://alpha/Bugs/Bugs/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?severity=serious&type=text
=>
Bug: #196450
Title: Simplecdrx: FTBFS with g++-3.3: Missing <cassert> include
Severity: serious
Package: simplecdrx
Reported by: Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 02:18:05 UTC
Tags: fixed, patch
Maintainer: Benoit Joly <benoit@debian.org>
Source: simplecdrx

Bug: #196324
Title: xosview: FTBFS with g++-3.3: strstream.h is gone
Severity: serious
Package: xosview
Reported by: Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 02:33:01 UTC
Tags: patch
Merged with: #186499
Maintainer: Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>
Source: xosview.
...

Any objection to that or is there alreay something like it?

MfG
        Goswin