Private bugs

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, September 04, 2012 06:35:58 PM Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> recently a bug reported by a QA member was marked as a duplicate (no harm
> there), but the 'master' bug was set as 'private'. This meant that the
> person who registered it could not access it to view / update etc.
> 
> I had a chat with the bug squad about this. If this happens they ask that
> you go to #ubuntu-bugs and raise it with them. The bot does go trawling for
> duplicated bugs, but it is not aware if the bug it is using as master is
> private. I'll get the wiki area updated.

This isn't supposed to happen, so please file a bug against launchpad with the 
details.

Scott K