Please don't bother setting already-duplicated bugs to Rejected!

[t u]

I already sent this to ubuntu-bugsquad, but it seems it should be sent
here as well :)

Lex Hider wrote:
>> On Wednesday 18 October 2006 09:17, Colin Watson wrote:
>>>> In an attempt to be helpful, a bug triager just went through a
>>>> bunch of my bugs that I marked as duplicates of other bugs ages
>>>> ago, and set the Status of all of them to Rejected.
>>>> 
(...)
>>>> 
>>>> Please don't contribute to the increasing entropy of the 
>>>> universe - don't touch the status of duplicate bugs!
>>>> 
>> 
>> I was wondering to what extent this could be fixed on the launchpad
>>  side. If it's a bad idea to reject duplicate bugs, why not make it
>>  impossible?

There is work going on about that:
https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/3796 (a one year old bug)

thanks
the "helpful" bug triager in question



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