Bug 96582 – search when entering a bug has different result as normal search

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure

[Description Martin 2005-06-20 01:24:13 UTC]

On the start page http://bugs.gentoo.org/, when entering "shared-mime-info" as 
search string, 1 (one) bug is found.  Making the same search when entering a bug 
in the guided format gets many many hits.  I suppose the "-" signs in the second 
case are removed before the search is triggered.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
same search results in both cases

[Comment 1 Nicholas Sandow 2005-06-21 21:33:04 UTC]

There is another difference:

If I type 'Apache Documentation' at the start page, I get only a few results.

If I type the same in the guided format, I get many more results - so many more
that the search is basically useless.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-06-27 01:59:19 UTC]

Bug 96945, comment #5 is another example of utterly useless results that the
"new bug" search returns... :/

[Comment 3 Oliver Schoett 2005-07-07 13:48:58 UTC]

See also bug 98274, comment #2.  Here the "search for your bug" step failed to
show the preceding equivalent bug 98260, presumably because it had been fixed
already.

This shows that the settings for this search are useless for preventing dupes of
bugs that have been fixed already.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-07-07 15:50:17 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> See also bug 98274, comment #2.  Here the "search for your bug" step failed to
> show the preceding equivalent bug 98260, presumably because it had been fixed
> already.
> 
> This shows that the settings for this search are useless for preventing dupes of
> bugs that have been fixed already.

As I have commented on the other bug, the "enter a bug" search is broken and
there is nothing that can be done on Gentoo side about it right now - this is an
upstream bugzilla bug/feature. 

[Comment 5 Martin 2005-07-08 00:41:48 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> As I have commented on the other bug, the "enter a bug" search is broken and
> there is nothing that can be done on Gentoo side about it right now - this is 
an
> upstream bugzilla bug/feature. 
> 
Couldn't you place a hint in the guided format pages before the "search bugs"-
part that says: "this feature is broken - please use the normal search" or 
something like this.  This may reduces duplicate bugs.

[Comment 6 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2005-07-19 10:34:40 UTC]

i have added a comment below the quick search field on the index page as to how
to better search using ALL. in the upcoming 2.20 bugzilla release i will keep my
eyes on search abnormalities with that front page.