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) - a single Postgres database aggregating package, bug, Lintian, popcon, and reproducibility data for cross-cutting queries.

Debian publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Bugs API, Maintainers API, and Reproducibility API. Tagged areas include Bug Tracker, Debian, Linux, Open Source, and Operating System.

The Debian catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Debian’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, and 17 more developer resources.

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31.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 99/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemium

2 published contracts

Bug TrackerDebianLinux Open Source Operating System Package Management Source Code

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Software Product Engineering Management

BC-4200

Bugs

GET /{bugId} GET /cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi GET /bugs/

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 31.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 3.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 11

Contract Governance 2.8 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 47.7 — up to +13.1 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/debian/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/debian to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Vulnerability Disclosure (CVE Numbering Authorities, FIRST member teams; CISA KEV exposure)	standard	26.8 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Debian Bugs API

The Bugs API from Debian — 4 operation(s) for bugs.

Debian Maintainers API

The Maintainers API from Debian — 1 operation(s) for maintainers.

Debian Reproducibility API

The Reproducibility API from Debian — 1 operation(s) for reproducibility.

Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Debian Bug Tracking System API

OPEN COLLECTION

Debian Bug Tracking System Bugs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Debian Bug Tracking System Bugs Copyright API

OPEN COLLECTION

Debian Bug Tracking System Bugs Maintainers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Debian Bug Tracking System Bugs Patches API

OPEN COLLECTION

Debian Bug Tracking System Bugs Reproducibility API

OPEN COLLECTION

Debian Bug Tracking System Bugs Sources API

OPEN COLLECTION

Debian Ultimate Database (UDD) Web Tools

OPEN COLLECTION

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Debian API pricing

Not yet checked against Debian's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Debian's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Debian Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Debian Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Debian

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Debian Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Debian Context

3 classes · 12 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Debian — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Debian — sources api rules

5 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Debian Bug Report

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Debian Source Package

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Debian Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Debian Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Debian Agentic Access

6 operations

6 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitLab

GitLab

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

PrivacyPolicy

License

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Wiki

Wiki

Mailing Lists

Mailing Lists

Source (apis.yml)

aid: debian
name: Debian
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/debian/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: Public
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/debian.png
tags:
- Bug Tracker
- Debian
- Linux
- Open Source
- Operating System
- Package Management
- Source Code
tags_raw:
- Bug Tracker
- Debian
- Linux
- Open Source
- Operating System
- Package Management
- Source Code
- Open-Source
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
kind: opensource
description: 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) - a single Postgres database aggregating
  package, bug, Lintian, popcon, and reproducibility data for cross-cutting queries.
apis:
- aid: debian:debian-bugs-api
  name: Debian Bugs API
  description: The Bugs API from Debian — 4 operation(s) for bugs.
  humanURL: https://sources.debian.org/doc/api/
  baseURL: https://sources.debian.org/api
  tags:
  - Bugs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/debian-bugs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/debian-bug.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase
- aid: debian:debian-maintainers-api
  name: Debian Maintainers API
  description: The Maintainers API from Debian — 1 operation(s) for maintainers.
  humanURL: https://sources.debian.org/doc/api/
  baseURL: https://sources.debian.org/api
  tags:
  - Maintainers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/debian-maintainers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/debian-bug.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase
- aid: debian:debian-reproducibility-api
  name: Debian Reproducibility API
  description: The Reproducibility API from Debian — 1 operation(s) for reproducibility.
  humanURL: https://sources.debian.org/doc/api/
  baseURL: https://sources.debian.org/api
  tags:
  - Reproducibility
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/debian-reproducibility-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/debian-bug.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/debian-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/debian-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/debian-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/debian-capability-edges.yml
  name: Debian Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/debian-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/debian-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/debian-domain-security.yml
- url: https://bits.debian.org/feeds/atom.xml
  type: Blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Debian
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/debian
- type: Website
  url: https://www.debian.org/
- type: Wiki
  url: https://wiki.debian.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.debian.org/doc/
- type: GitLab
  url: https://salsa.debian.org/
- type: Mailing Lists
  url: https://lists.debian.org/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.debian.org/legal/privacy
- type: License
  url: https://www.debian.org/social_contract
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/debian-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/debian-vocabulary.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.debian.org/partners/
integrations:
- name: Partners Program
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Debian API — frequently asked questions

Does Debian have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Debian, including Debian Bugs API, Debian Maintainers API and Debian Reproducibility API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Debian API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Debian, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Debian API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Debian, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Debian API ready for AI agents?

Debian has a Kin Score of 31.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

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