Finding bug duplicates

[Brian Murray]

During the UDS Lucid meeting regarding "Making duplicate bug detection
and consolidation easier" it was mentioned that it would be helpful to
have a script that uses the Launchpad's duplicate finder to search for
duplicates of a bug report.  I've written such a script,
find-similar-bugs.py, which uses launchpadlib and put it in the
ubuntu-qa-tools bzr branch[1].  I've used it with mixed success and hope
that you might find it useful.

One interesting thing to do would be going through the karmic-changes[2]
mailing list and looking for fixed bugs (indicated by LP: #465619) and
using the script to find potential duplicates.

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol/ubuntu-qa-tools/master
[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/

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Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com
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