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marking a bug as duplicate 'loses' the tags the duplicate uniquely had

Bug #30537 reported by Andrew Pam
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Bug Description

One bug report can be marked as a duplicate of another, but this doesn't merge tags.

See also bug 165110.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/DuplicateBugHandlin

Changed in malone:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
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Ian Jackson (ijackson) wrote : Re: Can't merge bug reports

-davenant:~> adnshost wiki.launchpad.canonical.com
wiki.launchpad.canonical.com does not exist
-davenant:~>

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Updated URL: https://launchpad.net/malone/+spec/duplicate-bug-handling

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
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Deryck Hodge (deryck) wrote :

I'm looking through old bugs about duplicates since I'm working in this code now....

So we currently do merge subscribers to the master bug. I wonder if we really want to merge comments and tags. Launchpad is unique in that bugs frequently have long lists of duplicate bugs. This could be chaos if we tried to merge comments. Tags would be less of a problem, but I don't know that I see any value there either.

So do people associated with this bug still feel value in merging comments and tags, given the state of the number of duplicates bugs can have today in Launchpad?

Changed in malone:
status: Triaged → Incomplete
importance: Medium → Undecided
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I think merging comments from duplicates would be rather chaotic and unhelpful.

With regards to bug tags though we have official bug tags which in theory are important to a project - since they became official. So if a duplicate bug report possesses an official bug tag that the master bug report does not I think it'd be useful to add that tag to the master bug report.

Robert Collins (lifeless)
summary: - Can't merge bug reports
+ marking a bug as duplicate merges only some metadata
Changed in launchpad:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

We may want an expander allowing finer control of what doing a duplication means - we have:
 - comments
 - subscribers
 - tags
 - tasks [including e.g. assignee on the same-project task]

and depending on circumstances exposing some of these on the master bug is appropriate|inappropriate.

tags: added: duplicate-handling
removed: lp-bugs
summary: - marking a bug as duplicate merges only some metadata
+ marking a bug as duplicate 'loses' the tags the duplicate uniquely had
description: updated
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