to raise a exception isn't a bug

[Derek Broughton]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:

> Derek Broughton:
> 
>> I don't disagree at all - which was my point.  Raising exceptions is not
>> only _not_ a bug, but required behaviour.  But the fact that the
>> exception actually percolated to the user interface IS a bug, and frankly
>> closing a bug as invalid because it was reported against the wrong
>> package (albeit the package that the exception SAID it was in), is
>> really, really, bad PR.
> 
> I've already explained it twice, but I'll try for a third (and last)
> time: *the* bug (*as a whole*) isn't closed as "Invalid". And it is not
> reported (only) against the wrong package, but it's reported against the
> wrong *and* the correct package.
> Have you even looked ad the report?

Sheesh.  Has some kind of rudeness virus hit Ubuntu today?  Yes.  I read the 
report.  The problem I am seeing, more and more, is developers (or worse, 
bug triagers) alienating bug reporters by telling them their bugs are 
invalid.

> The packages affected along with
> their status wrt the bug are shown next to the top of the page. There
> one can see that the status is "Invalid" wrt the wrong package *and*
> "Fix Released" wrt the correct package.

Then there's STILL a usability bug with Launchpad, because that is far from 
obvious.
-- 
derek