---
name: "Debbugs::Bugs"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libdebbugs-perl"
version: "2.6.4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Debbugs::Bugs"
---

# Debbugs::Bugs(3pm)

## NAME

Debbugs::Bugs -- Bug selection routines for debbugs

## SYNOPSIS

use Debbugs::Bugs qw(get\_bugs);

## DESCRIPTION

This module is a replacement for all of the various methods of selecting different types of bugs.

It implements a single function, get\_bugs, which defines the master interface for selecting bugs.

It attempts to use subsidiary functions to actually do the selection, in the order specified in the configuration files. \[Unless you're insane, they should be in order from fastest (and often most incomplete) to slowest (and most complete).\]

## BUGS

## FUNCTIONS

### get\_bugs

```
     get_bugs()
```

*Parameters*

The following parameters can either be a single scalar or a reference to an array. The parameters are ANDed together, and the elements of arrayrefs are a parameter are ORed. Future versions of this may allow for limited regular expressions, and/or more complex expressions.

- package -- name of the binary package

  - src -- name of the source package

  - maint -- address of the maintainer

  - submitter -- address of the submitter

  - severity -- severity of the bug

  - status -- status of the bug

  - tag -- bug tags

  - owner -- owner of the bug

  - correspondent -- address of someone who sent mail to the log

  - affects -- bugs which affect this package

  - dist -- distribution (I don't know about this one yet)

  - bugs -- list of bugs to search within

  - function -- see description below

  *Special options*

The following options are special options used to modulate how the searches are performed.

- archive -- whether to search archived bugs or normal bugs; defaults to false. As a special case, if archive is 'both', but archived and unarchived bugs are returned.

  - usertags -- set of usertags and the bugs they are applied to

  *Subsidiary routines*

All subsidiary routines get passed exactly the same set of options as get\_bugs. If for some reason they are unable to handle the options passed (for example, they don't have the right type of index for the type of selection) they should die as early as possible. \[Using Params::Validate and/or die when files don't exist makes this fairly trivial.\]

This function will then immediately move on to the next subroutine, giving it the same arguments.

*function*

This option allows you to provide an arbitrary function which will be given the information in the index.db file. This will be super, super slow, so only do this if there's no other way to write the search.

You'll be given a list (which you can turn into a hash) like the following:

```
 (pkg => ['a','b'], # may be a scalar (most common)
  bug => 1234,
  status => 'pending',
  submitter => 'boo@baz.com',
  severity => 'serious',
  tags => ['a','b','c'], # may be an empty arrayref
 )
```

The function should return 1 if the bug should be included; 0 if the bug should not.

### count\_bugs

```
     count_bugs(function => sub {...})
```

Uses a subroutine to classify bugs into categories and return the number of bugs which fall into those categories

### newest\_bug

```
     my $bug = newest_bug();
```

Returns the bug number of the newest bug, which is nextnumber-1.

### bug\_filter

```
     bug_filter
```

Allows filtering bugs on commonly used criteria

### get\_bugs\_by\_idx

This routine uses the by-$index.idx indicies to try to speed up searches.

### get\_bugs\_flatfile

This is the fallback search routine. It should be able to complete all searches. \[Or at least, that's the idea.\]

## PRIVATE FUNCTIONS

### \_\_handle\_pkg\_src\_and\_maint

```
     my @packages = __handle_pkg_src_and_maint(map {exists $param{$_}?($_,$param{$_}):()}
                                               qw(package src maint)
                                              );
```

Turn package/src/maint into a list of packages