On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 12:18:29AM +0100, Tomasz Nitecki wrote:
> retitle 852737 how-can-i-help should report merged bugs only once
> thanks
>
>
> Hey,
>
> On 26/01/17 21:13, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > $ how-can-i-help --old --show help | grep stacked
> > - util-linux - https://bugs.debian.org/776034 - fsck: implement support
> > for stacked devices (MD/DM/RAID)
> > - util-linux - https://bugs.debian.org/778283 - fsck: implement support
> > for stacked devices (MD/DM/RAID)
> > - util-linux - https://bugs.debian.org/779051 - fsck: implement support
> > for stacked devices (MD/DM/RAID)
> > - util-linux - https://bugs.debian.org/779052 - fsck: implement support
> > for stacked devices (MD/DM/RAID)
> > $
>
> Thanks for reporting this issue.
>
> I've run into this issue while testing the 'help' bugs functionality and
> I've noticed that it also affects multiple types of opportunities shown
> by hcih. Those 'help' ones are just easier to spot (as they were
> retitled) but it not unique to them (e.g. #672793, #636108, #784158 in
> lightdm).
>
> I can fix that, however there are two things that I'm wondering about:
>
> 1. Cloned bugs can have different titles. How to choose which one to
> display with full title and which only as cloned bug numbers?
These bugs are merged, cloned bugs are the opposite.
By default the BTS shows only the bug with the lowest number,
with the title of this bug.
This would also be a reasonable approach for hcih,
there is actually not even a point in displaying
that merged bugs exist.
> 2. If a bug gets unmerged but we have already displayed it as a cloned
> bug number, should we display it again, this time as a proper bug?
hcih could treat merged bugs as if only the bug with the lowest number
exists, completely ignoring other bugs merged with it.
In the (extremely rare) case that a bug gets unmerged,
it would then be a new bug.
> Regards,
> T.
cu
Adrian
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