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Re: marking as dup - always use oldest bug?

 

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 11-01-10 01:35 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
>> On searches:
>>  - the dupe finder is *meant* to search across dupes too, if its not
>> thats a bug - lets confirm and file it.
>
> I don't know about the dupe finder, but I know that the standard bug
> search is not finding the authoritative bug if it doesn't have a bug
> task for project you filed the dupe on.
>
> I filed #699891 on oops-tools, and it was marked as a dupe #661266,
> which was an Apache OpenID bug.  Afterward, searching "openid" on
> "oops-tools" found nothing.
>
>>  - to workaround such a bug we can simply edit the title and body of
>> the older bug - and we should do that as part of keeping the bug
>> maintained. They should be living documents.
>
> I thought that was the issue at first, but I found that adding "openid"
> to #661266 title did not make it possible to find it using a bug search
> on oop-tools.  So I added a bug task on oops-tools.
>
> Aaron
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