Patch checkbox for bug attachments (Re: No Attention)
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at ubuntu.com
Mon Feb 4 11:43:12 GMT 2008
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:03:31AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Daniel Holbach [2008-01-31 7:26 +0100]:
> > Am Montag, den 28.01.2008, 22:09 +0000 schrieb James Westby:
> > > There seem to be some false positives in here, for instance #183615.
> > > Is this a bug in the launchpad bug search that you use do you think?
> >
> > Seems that http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11413037/foo.txt on
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/183615 had
> > the 'patch tag' on, I'm sure that others do too.
> >
> > Martin: is this a bug in the apport bug filing?
>
> No, it's not. This foo.txt attachment is not filed by apport. I guess
> the person who attached it just accidentally enabled the patch checkbox.
I've seen quite a lot of this around. I think that many people who add
attachments don't know what a patch is, and see no harm in checking the box.
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- mdz
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