Bug#712979: debbugs: please add REST api

[Pavlos <onexemailx@gmail.com>]

I think so yes. It would be equally convenient. It's an http get request anyway. :)

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Pavlos wrote:
> More or less I would like to be able to search for bugs with the same
> parameters you can define here http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
> So search by bug number, package name, maintainer, severity, submitters
> name, bug status, data (to get newest bugs). If i can also add an
> exclude/include argument as in the page then even better. :)
> ​I think that should be ok for now.

Would a format=json or similar argument to the existing bugreport.cgi
and pkgreport.cgi pages be enough? [Or at least, the existing argument
parsing.]

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