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[Xavier Maillard <xma@xxxxxxx>]

At Tue, 19 May 2009 11:35:55 +0000,
Nathan Handler wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Xavier Maillard <xma@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I find it counter-intuitive to have the ability to select "merged" in
> > the status drop down menu then.
> 
> There is a valid instance for when you would want the ability to
> select 'merged' in the status drop down menu. If the changes that a
> branch makes are applied in trunk without a formal merge (bzr merge)
> being performed, the status will not automatically change. This is
> because Launchpad does not know that all changes made in the branch
> have been applied upstream. This is a case where you would need to
> manually change the status to 'merged'.

That's right.

Xavier