461538 - Show bugs if their duplicates match the criteria used to search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 24957

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement)

Description

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

A problem about marking bugs as DUPLICATEs is that the summary of the duplicate doesn't get merged automatically into the original bug. I'm not proposing an automatic method to do this (because it's always preferred to wait for human's behaviour in this case), but a smarter way to do the search, so:

Steps to reproduce:
1. Have a bug called "XXX doesn't work because of YYY" as UNCONFIRMED. (#100)
2. Have a bug called "ZZZ output should not be correct for XXX when TTT" filed (#200).
3. Mark #200 as DUPE of #100.
4. Search for UNCONFIRMED bugs with the string "TTT".

Current results:
No bugs found.

Expected results:
Should show bug #200.

So the implementation of this would be:
If RESOLVE->DUPLICATE is not in the status filter of the search, then:
Include also DUPE bugs in the search.
If search returns a DUPE bug and RESOLVE->DUPLICATE was not in the status of the filter, change the bug to be shown in the query results to be the original, but with a remark about the DUPE.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

This idea has already been suggested in bug 24957.