>>>>> "Wouter" == Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wouter> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:19:18AM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>> > I could just close the bug against my package, but this means other
>> > people will encounter the same problem and report the bug against my
>> > package again (as it isn't always obvious that it isn't the fault of
>> > my package).
>>
>> How about merging those bugs with the bug reported against the correct
>> package?
Wouter> That's not possible. You can only merge bugs if /all/
Wouter> properties (tags, severity, package reported against, ...)
Wouter> are the same.
Why is this? I can open one bug against multiple packages, so I think
it should be possible to merge two or more bugs against different
packages.
Still, I can think of times when merging isn't
appropriate. e.g. consider:
bug report 1 package A: Program A segfaults.
bug report 2 package B: libb segfaults.
In which case, the 2 bug reports may highlight different aspects of
the same bug; while they are the same bug they are not the same. Bug 1
would list the details of the bug from the users perspective trying to
run A, but bug 2 is more likely to have extensive debugging
information proving the library is at fault.
Also, if I encountered a problem with A segfaulting, I would notice
the first title, but I might miss the second title (unless I knew A
was linked against libb).
When bug report 2 is closed, the maintainer of A may want to double
check to make sure that the bug really is fixed in A (maybe bug 2
wasn't the real cause after all), before 1 gets closed.
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Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
