Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

[flocculant at gmx.co.uk]

On 26/04/16 20:19, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> Flocculant:
>> our tracker isn't able to differentiate between packages/projects on a
>> bug afaik.
>
> If you search for bugs in Ubuntu, the only settings Launchpad will 
> take into account are those in the package itself.
>
> The settings in the papercuts project will only affect searches done 
> at (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/One%20Hundred%20Papercuts).
>
>
> Flocculant:
> > Our 'problem' with the 100 paper cuts issue - is that while they may
> > eventually get marked as fixed - it's not when our tracker 'should'
> > be showing it - but some indeterminate point in the future.
>
> Cleaning up reports from older releases will not affect the quality of 
> papercuts searches. As the search criteria is already built in the 
> wiki, and upgraded after every Ubuntu release.
>
> So the point of the conversation is this: a process is as correct as 
> it eases a goal. If a piece of work eases nothing, or it eases little 
> expending high loads of work, then it is waste.
>
Excellent - we agree on something then ;)

So I assume you're going to stop addin 100papercuts to these bug reports 
now then.

Thanks Alberto
> (https://youtu.be/Nz21oAEXE5k)
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