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["Chris Coulson" <chrisccoulson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/1/20 Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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> shirish wrote on 20/01/09 07:15:
> >...
> >
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/+bug/318632
> >
> > which was made to be a duplicate of this bug
> >
> > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/263187
> >...
> > Not allowed here
> >...
> > Now I don't understand is
> >
> > a. Why has it got forbidden.
> > b.  Even if the bug has some privacy or some other issue (meaning some
> > part of the bug which canonical wants to protect for some reason)
> >...
>
> This has nothing particularly to do with Canonical. There are hundreds
> of Ubuntu developers who had access to that bug report while it was
> private, and most of them don't work for Canonical.
>
> It's bad manners, and sometimes counterproductive, to mark a public bug
> report as a duplicate of a private one. If it happens again to a report
> you're involved with, I suggest you complain to the person who marked it
> that way, rather than to the launchpad-users@ mailing list.
>
> Cheers
> - --
> Matthew Paul Thomas
> http://mpt.net.nz/
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Matthew,

In the case of crash reports, sometimes the retracers automatically mark a
bug report as a duplicate of a private one (at least I've seen that happen
plenty of times before - I'm assuming it still does).

Regards
Chris