[Reportbug-maint] Bug#847148: reportbug: validate that version numbers are or have been in Debian

[Paul Wise]

Package: reportbug
Severity: wishlist

When reporting bugs to the Debian BTS (except for pseudo-packages),
please check that provided version numbers match any of the versions known to have been in Debian and warn about unknown version numbers.
Hopefully this will reduce the amount of bogus version numbers.

Not sure if bugs.d.o has an API for this but snapshot.d.o has one:

For bugs reported against source packages, you can use this JSON data:

http://snapshot.debian.org/mr/package/example/

For bugs reported against binary packages, you can use this JSON data:

http://snapshot.debian.org/mr/binary/example/

PS: version 7.0.0 works fine :)

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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