You may choose to cancel this bug. Or better, you may choose to fix (or
at least warn about) the problem I am about to describe.

The cause of the difficulty resulted from my having originally entered:
"Network Manager and/or ntpd"  under "In what package did you find this
bug?". The page had flagged that, so per recommendation, I clicked "I
don't know instead".

However, because I did not erase the words "Network Manager and/or
ntpd", when I clicked "Submit",  the web page decided that I should have
clicked on the button next to the words that I did not erase, so it re-
clicked it for me and unclicked "I don't know", which re-introduced the
page's  recognition that I had made an error.

Because I had explicitly clicked "I don't know", it hadn't occurred to
me to consider that clicking "Submit" would have caused my most recently
chosen answer to the "package" question to have been reverted to my
previous answer by the page itself, on my behalf.  I had already fixed
the error I had made on that part of the page (or so I thought), so when
another error was flagged,  I looked everywhere else on the page to try
to figure out what the page was complaining about.

I understand that this may have arisen out of an idiosyncrasy in the
implementation, but with that being the case, it would take only a few
additional characters of code to detect what it could consider to be an
"incomplete change" and provide some warning of its inability to handle
the manner in which a human would normally and naturally be expected to
correct the error I had originally made and corrected.

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