By design, Bugzilla is programmed to return the string "zarro boogs found" instead of "0 bugs found" when a search for bugs returns no results"Zarro Boogs" is a facetious meta-statement about the nature of software debugging. Bug tracking systems like Bugzilla readily describe how many known bugs are outstanding. The response "zarro boogs", is intended as a buggy statement itself (a misspelling of "zero bugs"), implying that even when no bugs have been identified, software is still likely to contain bugs that haven't yet been identified.
The following comment is provided in the Bugzilla source code to developers who may be confused by this behaviour:
- Zarro Boogs Found
- This is just a goofy way of saying that there were no bugs found matching your query.
- So when you query for a list of bugs, and it gets no results, you can think of this as a friendly reminder. Of *course* there are bugs matching your query, they just aren't in the bugsystem yet...
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarro_boogs?useFormat=mobile#Zarro_boogs
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