Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

> I believe, this shall be implemented in the frontend Lars is working
> on. debbugs-get-bugs returns the bug numbers, and before calling
> debbugs-get-status, the frontend could ask (like in gnus):
>
>   How many articles from gmane.emacs.devel (available 140599, default 200):

Yes, I could add something like that.  

> Btw, for debian.org such a restriction would be even more important:
>
>   (let ((debbugs-port "debian.org"))
>     (debbugs-newest-bugs 1))
>   => (632453)

Yeah, but there's only

  (let ((debbugs-port "debian.org"))
    (length (debbugs-get-bugs :severity "normal")))
  => 33394

33K open normal bug reports.  :-)
  
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