question on duplicate bug handeling in upstream bug trackers

[Jonathan Jesse]

Thanks James for the quick response

-----Original Message-----
From: james.henstridge at gmail.com [mailto:james.henstridge at gmail.com] On
Behalf Of James Henstridge
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 10:51 PM
To: Jonathan Jesse
Cc: Launchpad Users
Subject: Re: question on duplicate bug handeling in upstream bug trackers

On 04/12/06, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
> I reported this bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kdepim/+bug/73480,
> which deals w/ problems w/ the manual for akregator thinking it only
related
> to Ubuntu.  I finally had a chance to install a Debian VM and it had the
> same bug so I created a bug on bugs.kde.org,
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138222, which
> apparently was a duplicate of this bug:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95050.  If I know look
> at the bug on Launchpad it says the upstream has been rejected.  Do I have
> to link this bug on Launchpad to the new bug on bugs.kde.org?  Shouldn't
it
> follow the fact there is a duplicate bug and update the status to the new
> bug or do I just need to relink to upstream?

Our remote bug tracking does not handle duplicates at the moment.

You can update the bug number by clicking the "edit" link in the
"Remote bug watches" portlet on the right of the page.  This will
cause Launchpad to follow the status of the new bug report.

James.