On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 04:12:51PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, Ondrej Bilka wrote:
> 
> > These will be checked by bots and when there is a failure on closed bug it
> > will be reopened.
> 
> No, don't reopen old bugs unless it turns out the patch claimed to fix the 
> bug didn't fix it at all, or needed to be reverted.  Open new bugs when 
> all you know is that the symptom is the same (but the cause is almost 
> certainly different), and include a comment mentioning the previous fixed 
> bug with the same symptom.
>
Also possible, main idea is to keep context. As original author is
likely most familiar with relevant code what about copying a cc list of
original bug?

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