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[Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 06/12/2014 08:15 PM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
| Daniel Letzeisen, thanks for your e-mail, and your trying to help with
| triaging linux (Ubuntu) bugs. Regarding your comments:
|
|> " About a week ago, Ubuntu released kernel 2.6.32-61 for Lucid/10.04 Server as a security fix to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1326367 Unfortunately, the fix caused a regression, which is correctly documented and tagged by an Ubuntu dev here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1327300 The regression caused a variety of symptoms such as hanging and loss of sound (there are a couple other bugs, but I don't have the link at the moment): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1327220 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1327014 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1328360 Christopher Penalver quickly marked those bugs as "Won't Fix" and said Lucid Desktop wasn't supported anymore (even though the kernel is part of the Server package and an update had just been pushed)."
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| This is because all the bugs you are marking duplicates of 1327220
| aren't using Lucid Server, but Lucid Desktop, which is EoL as of
| https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases . As a member of Ubuntu Bug Control
| you should have already been keenly aware of this link. However, if
| there has been a change in the End of Life for Lucid Desktop I've not
| been made aware of, I'll be more than happy to reverse the Status and
| triage appropriately.

Sounds like a rather sticky situation.  I would say that the other bugs should not be marked wontfix out of hand simply because they are no longer supported.  A reasonable attempt should be made to address the issues in the still supported package, without causing unintended breakage, especially if the same root cause also causes breakage in still supported packages.  Only if there is no reasonable way to accomplish that would marking the fallout in the unsupported packages as wontfix be justified.

To put that another way, as long as there is an open bug against a still supported package caused by this regression that the others can rightly be duped against, then they should be duped rather than severed and marked wontfix.


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