Bug#169361: ITP: apt-listbugs -- Retrieves bugs from BTS and lists them

[Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org>]

I've uploaded test version of the tool at

deb http://people.debian.org/~taru/deb/apt-listbugs/ ./

I'd like you to check it.

Currently, it retrieves bugs from not bugs.debian.org,
but hanzubon.debian.gr.jp, which does proxy-caching of
bugs.debian.org temporally. This keeps a query to
bugs.debian.org for 20 miniutes to avoid many queries
to it.

I guess we need more sophisticated framework.

At Sun, 17 Nov 2002 01:44:43 +0900,
Masato Taruishi wrote:

> * Package name    : apt-listbugs
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : Retrieves bugs from BTS and lists them
> 
>  Hi, I'm writing a tool 'apt-listbugs' which retrieves bugs from
>  the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists them. Especially, 
>  apt-listbugs is invoked before each installation by apt
>  in order to check whether the upgrade is safe. If it finds
>  critical bugs, you can stop the installation and save your
>  system. This package should be useful for developers and/or
>  users of sid.
> 
>  Of cource, it's needed that anyone reports the critical bug
>  to BTS to save our own system :)
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux vass 2.4.19-686 #1 Sun Oct 6 18:37:38 EST 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP