Subject: bug#20368: 25.0.50; [debbugs] Search by 'submitter' doesn't work when the search phrase is present

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:12:46 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

>> 3. Type 'author', RET, [email-masked]', RET.
>>
>> --> This is the fix. "submitter" was the wrong attribute, it isn't
>> offered anymore.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> 4. See bugs 24117, 20368, 20207, 19860, 19729, 12893.
>
> I do see this list now.
>
> But is it right? Bug 24117 has a different submitter.

It is correct. Your search is not related to the *submitter*
[email-masked]', but to the *author*.

Your search returns bugs, which

- contain a message with the word 'url-retrieve-synchronously', AND
- have the author [email-masked]' of this message.

This is how the debbugs search works. It is message oriented, and not
bug oriented. The presentation as a bug is a convenient layer of
debbugs-gnu.el. Maybe it could also highlight the respective message(s)
in the gnus/rmail summary, but this is not implemented.

Best regards, Michael.