So I cleaned out the spam trap...

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:27 AM, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:31:12PM +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> ...
>> Right. So what I meant to say is, is that a problem? Should Launchpad
>> know about a greater proportion of the Debian bugs? If so, how can we
>> make it easier to link an Ubuntu bug to a Debian one?
>>
>> Alternatively, if we can never get 100% linkage, is it a waste of time
>> linking in the first place, since that won't reduce the traffic of the
>> fixed-in-Debian mailing list, so it will be more work overall?
>
> Let me explain; this isn't really about linking.
>
> Because Ubuntu and Debian have so much common code, it turns out that 
> we share a large proportion of our bugs as well.  Therefore, for a 
> given Debian bug, it's rather likely that it is also present in Ubuntu 
> and therefore relevant to us.
>
> When we used Bugzilla, we took advantage of this by importing all 
> Debian bugs of a certain minimum severity into Bugzilla so that we 
> could track their status in Ubuntu.  Since moving our bug tracking to 
> Launchpad, we've lost this useful resource.
> ...

I was aware that Ubuntu and Debian share code and bugs.

To get back to my question, then: Should Launchpad know about a greater 
proportion of the Debian bugs? If so, how can we make it easier to link 
an Ubuntu bug to a Debian one? Are you suggesting that we import Debian 
bugs into Launchpad, as we used to into Bugzilla? Or is the 
fixed-in-Debian mailing list a more efficient solution?

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