Using Bugzilla for Gentoo

[dufeu]

Whenever I try to search for a possibly already reported bug similar to one I may be having, I almost never find any. And yet, about 1/2 half of the ones I enter end up being marked as dups of others. Of those, it is my opinion that about 1/2 half should have been reported in my searches.

I'm currently only using the top part of the query screen where I enter strings which must be in the header of the bug report or I uses strings which have to be in a comment of the bug report.

I've already read what's on the gentoo bug site. And I don't see anything in the documentation on the gentoo website proper. Is there anything written up anywhere on using bugzilla effectively?

I hate doing ineffective queries about as much as ECummings hates posting bug closeout comments.

Please help!
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[BlackBart]

sometimes they mark older bugs as dupes of newer bugs so it may be that there weren't any related bugs at the time of posting. Check to see if the bug id is newer than yours or older.