Re: Use Debbugs to search for only open bugs

[Joshua Branson]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>
> Hi Joshua,
>
> Well, I found the time now to check what's up.
>
>> Hmm, looks like there's an error in debbugs-gnu-search. I'll check, but
>> perhaps you might write a bug report about. I don't know whether I can
>> handle it just now, due to time constraints.
>
> There's indeed an error. The "status" attribute, when there is non-empty
> query string, must be "pending" instead of "open". And it is mapped
> internally to the attribute "pending".
>
> All this shouldn't worry you. I've just pushed debbugs 0.33, which will appear
> in a couple of hours on GNU ELPA. For the time being, you can apply
>
> (debbugs-gnu-search "wterm" '((pending . "pending")) nil '("guix" 
> "guix-patches"))
>
> If you want to see only closed bugs, then call
>
> (debbugs-gnu-search "wterm" '((pending . "done")) nil '("guix" 
> "guix-patches"))
>
> And if you want to see all bugs with this search string, there is
>
> (debbugs-gnu-search "wterm" nil nil '("guix" "guix-patches"))
>
> Best regards, Michael.
>

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly and for so quickly applying a
fix!

Joshua