Please don't bother setting already-duplicated bugs to Rejected!

[t u]

Lex Hider wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 October 2006 09:17, Colin Watson wrote:
>> In an attempt to be helpful, a bug triager just went through a bunch of
>> my bugs that I marked as duplicates of other bugs ages ago, and set the
>> Status of all of them to Rejected.
>>
(...)
>>
>> Please don't contribute to the increasing entropy of the universe -
>> don't touch the status of duplicate bugs!
>>
> 
> I was wondering to what extent this could be fixed on the launchpad side. If 
> it's a bad idea to reject duplicate bugs, why not make it impossible?

There is work going on about that:
https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/3796 (a one year old bug)

thanks
the "helpful" bug triager in question