Launchpad itself

Cannot add project "gdm (ubuntu)" to bug 133658

Bug #640476 reported by rusivi2 on 2010-09-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1334: Separate "also affects: " Project and Distribution links are hard to use and confusing. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Launchpad itself	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

1) What I expected to happen is when I go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/133658 and try to click "Also affects projects" and add "gdm (ubuntu)" it does so.

2) What happens instead is that when I try to add to add "gdm (ubuntu)" Launchpad notes:

There is no project in Launchpad named "gdm (ubuntu)". Please search for it as it may be registered with a different name.

However, clearly there is a project "gdm (ubuntu)" at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm

As well, there is an upstream bugtracker to bug against at https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm

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Deryck Hodge (deryck) wrote on 2010-09-16:

Hi, rusivi1.

There actually isn't a bug here, even though the click-path for doing this can be confusing. We do have open bugs for making the usage around adding tasks better. But to explain how this should work...

You're looking to add a bug task against the package gdm in Ubuntu, not the project "gdm (Ubuntu)". So normally, you would not click "Also affects project". You would instead click "also affects distribution" and fill in the "package" field with "gdm". However, the bug you are concerned about already has a task for Ubuntu without the package specified. You should now click the triangle/arrow icon next to "Ubuntu" in the affects table and add "gdm" in the package field and click "Save changes". This will get you the task against gdm in Ubuntu that you want.

Cheers,
deryck