Closing a bug

[Ace Suares]

On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:07:11PM -0400, Ace Suares wrote:
> > Hiya
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/openoffice/+bug/70981
> >
> > How to deal with this:
> >
> > 1. it's still a bug in feisty,.
> > 2. it's not a bug in gutsy
> > 3. somehow the 'affects' lists 4 items; two of them is fix release,
> > one confirmed, one invalid.
>
> In this particular bug we are being shown how it affects multiple
> different packages and projects.  We have the following:
>
> KDE PIM
>  - an upstream project
> OpenOffice
>  - another upstream project
> kdelibs (Ubuntu)
>  - an Ubuntu package
> openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
>  - an Ubuntu package
>
> > What to do to close the bug !?
>
> The bug is "closed", or in an end state, for almost every thing it
> affects.  The only remaining open affects is the upstream OpenOffice
> bug and if the bug really isn't an OpenOffice bug it'd be best if we
> were to get that upstream bug closed too.
>
> This is a really neat question as it illustrates how a bug can affect
> many different things which isn't the case with every bug.  I hope my
> answer helps explain things.
>
> Thanks,

Hi,

How to close an upstream bug ? Is that a bug in another bug system (i.e. 
not Malone/Launchpad) ?

ace