Bug#106039: use google to search the BTS?

[Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org>]

I agree with the submitter of #106039, having a way to search all bug reports 
against a package (or even all packages) would be really nice.

Maybe there is a way we could use google to do it (assuming we're not opposed 
to using google on a debian.org site, unclear). google allows restriction by 
site with something like "site:bugs.debian.org". I did try some searches using 
the site thing and didn't turn up much, and then I discovered that we restrict 
access to the BTS,

  http://bugs.debian.org/robots.txt

effectively preventing such searches. I'm sure there is a good reason that 
restriction was added, but it's pretty universal. If it was a case of abuse, 
maybe we can loosen it up so that well behaved search engines are allowed?

Thanks,

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Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org