Debian (debian)

Debian is a free operating system distribution maintained by the Debian Project, a community of more than a thousand volunteers worldwide. Debian provides a number of developer-facing services including a source-code browsing API at sources.debian.org, the Bug Tracking System (BTS) at bugs.debian.org, and the Ultimate Debian Database (UDD).

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Scope

• Type: Index
• Position: Provider
• Access: Public
• x-type: opensource

Tags

• Bug Tracker, Debian, Linux, Open Source, Operating System, Package Management, Source Code

Timestamps

• Created: 2025-01-01
• Modified: 2026-04-28

APIs

Debian Sources API

The Debian Sources API at sources.debian.org provides programmatic access to source code, package metadata, copyright records, and Debian patches for every source package in the archive.

• Base URL: https://sources.debian.org/api
• Human URL: https://sources.debian.org/doc/api/

Properties

• Documentation
• OpenAPI
• JSONSchema - Package
• Rules
• Capabilities

Debian Bug Tracking System

The Debian BTS at bugs.debian.org tracks bugs against packages and pseudo-packages. Bug reports are accessible as machine-readable mbox files and structured CGI views, with email serving as the canonical interaction surface.

• Base URL: https://bugs.debian.org
• Human URL: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/

Properties

• Documentation
• OpenAPI
• JSONSchema - Bug

Debian Ultimate Database (UDD)

The Ultimate Debian Database aggregates Debian-wide data into a single Postgres database and exposes web tools for bugs, maintainer dashboards, Lintian results, reproducibility, and more.

• Base URL: https://udd.debian.org
• Human URL: https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase

Properties

• Documentation
• OpenAPI

Common Properties

• Website
• Wiki
• Documentation
• Salsa GitLab
• Mailing Lists
• JSON-LD
• Vocabulary

Maintainers

• Kin Lane - kin@apievangelist.com