control: tags 936061 patch > So as a solution reportbug could consider respecting a Submit-As already > when retrieving the list of existing bugs. It could do this either > instead of using the actual package name given on the command line, or > in addition (presenting the union of both lists to the user).
There is now a merge request for this: https://salsa.debian.org/reportbug-team/reportbug/-/merge_requests/56 Note that this applies to reportbug, not querybts. Querybts is already inferior to reportbug in querying bugs today: - By default querybts retrieves the bug list only for the binary package, not the much more comprehensive list for the corresponding source package. - If a user wants to query for the source package with querybts, they have to figure out the name of the source package themselves and in addition use the -s/--source option to really achieve the desired query. Perhaps we should add stronger hints that users should just use reportbug instead.