# Debian

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/debian/  
**Website:** https://www.debian.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 33.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 53.8 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.6 |
| Access Clarity | 28.6 |

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **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...
- **Debian Bugs API** — The Bugs API from Debian — 4 operation(s) for bugs.
- **Debian Copyright API** — The Copyright API from Debian — 2 operation(s) for copyright.
- **Debian Maintainers API** — The Maintainers API from Debian — 1 operation(s) for maintainers.
- **Debian Patches API** — The Patches API from Debian — 1 operation(s) for patches.
- **Debian Reproducibility API** — The Reproducibility API from Debian — 1 operation(s) for reproducibility.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Debian Agentic Access** — 17 operations

## Security (2)

- **Debian Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Debian Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Debian Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/debian/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.