Keeping bugs visible after package change

[Chris Coulson]

On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 11:44 -0700, Mike Rooney wrote:
> Hi Marcel,
> 
> 
> When you want something to still be visible in a certain package such
> as this, I believe the best way is to mark the existing task Invalid
> for evince, and use the "Also affects distro" to open up a "cairo
> (Ubuntu)" task. And since there is an upstream bug, it would then make
> sense to mark that new task as Triaged.
> 
> 
> As far as the tags go, check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags. In
> this case it sounds like a potential fit: "This bug has a high
> probability of duplicate reports being filed.".
> 
> 
> - Mike

I would generally advise against doing this, as this ends up with people
who aren't particularly interested in that bug being spammed because
they are watching the bugs for the package you invalidated.

Regards
Chris

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