Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Paul Smith wrote on 20/08/08 15:20:
>...
> On the other hand I do think it's worthwhile to somehow mark bugs which
> are not sufficiently documented as to be reproducible/fixable.
>...
> So, if there is no suitable bug state existing already we need a new
> state for these kinds of bugs.  We can call it "watching", or
> "insufficient information", or "can not reproduce", or whatever.

That state already exists: it's called "Incomplete".

>                                                                   But
> it should not be "invalid"... or at least not have the current behavior
> of invalid, where once the bug is marked that way it, and all dups of
> it, drop off the edge of the world.
>...

It is an error to mark a valid bug report as a duplicate of an Invalid
one. If apport is doing that, please report a bug about apport.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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