Re: debbugs extensions

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Eli,

>> It's not only about performance. It's also about false hits. If you
>> apply debbugs-gnu-search for "flymake", in the package "emacs", you get
>> 1009 bugs. Most of them are not about a flymake problem, but they are
>> hit because "flymake" belongs to the list of features, compiled by
>> report-emacs-bug automatically.
>>
>> This shall be improved by excluding such false hits, because you want
>> only the bug reports about flymake problems.
>
> Actually, we only want to exclude that by default, because in some
> (rare) cases, you may wish to do something with all the reports whose
> list of features includes flymake.
>
> So we need a control to turn this on when needed.

Maybe somebody writes a wishlist report about? No guarantee it will be
implemented soon, but we shall track it.

Best regards, Michael.