Re: Bug querying implementation for report-emacs-bug

[Tassilo Horn]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Eli,

>> It all seems to work pretty well, except that the querying on the server
>> side is somehow a bit, well, sloppy.  For example, when I search for
>> "column", I can find some bugs including
>> 
>>   #971 [n|  |  ] [emacs] 23.0.60; next-line, previous-line and
>>    goal-column
>> 
>> When I search for "next-line previous-line goal-column" (without the
>> quotes), I find *nothing*...
>> 
>> When I search for "next-line, previous-line and goal-column" I get 4
>> bugs again.
>> 
>> Why does that comma and the "and" make any difference?
>
> Sounds like the search engine at debbugs uses a literal search, and
> does not support a list of keywords.  Maybe the debbugs folds could
> fix that, because without that the user will need to run a separate
> search for every keyword.

Yes, I've already sent a mail to address@hidden, so let's see what
they tell us.

Bye,
Tassilo