Comment 3 for bug 59389

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Brad Bollenbach (bradb) wrote : Re: [Bug 59389] Re: [Bug 59389] The possibility of retargeting a bug should be made more obvious

On 7-Sep-06, at 4:00 PM, Björn Tillenius wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 06:50:56PM -0000, Brad Bollenbach wrote:
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> It's not unusual that I see bugs like:
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/52330
>>
>> The bugtask should simply have been retargeted to Malone, but instead
>> another bugtask was created for Malone, and the LP one later
>> Rejected.
>
> Actually, if you look at that bug, that's not what happened. The bug
> was originally filed on Malone, and then someone opened up a task for
> Launchpad for some reason.

The bug was initially opened on Launchpad:

   https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/private/launchpad-bugs/2006-July/
015471.html

But that's an aside; the point is that there are two bugtasks on two
different products--one Rejected--when it was intended to be just
one, and the limpness of our retargeting UI is the likely culprit.