How to change upstream bugstatus?

[Jordan Mantha]

Thilo Six wrote:
> Matthew East wrote the following on 22.07.2006 00:23:
>>
>> * Thilo Six:
>>>> How to change upstream bugstatus?
>>>> e.g.:
>>>> https://launchpad.net/distros/debian/+source/glpk/+bug/46617
>>>>
>>>> as you can see upstream is working on it and therefor has the bug
>>>> "confirmed". How to reflect this upstream status in launchpad?
>> If you click on the upstream bugtask, you see this message:
>>
>> The information about this bug in Launchpad is automatically pulled
>> daily from the remote bug. This information was last pulled 2006-07-21
>> 07:28:35 BST.
>>
>> Matt
> 
> Hi Matt
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=glpk
> 
> This specific bug has:
> Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (1 bug)
> 
> Which means upstream hasn´t classified it yet and therefor our bug is
> "unconfirmed". But you agree this is wrong, do you?
> 
> In cases like this it would be cool to have the oportunity to
> permanently overwrite the upstream bugstatus manually in launchpad.
> 
> ...or maybe overwrite the upstream bugstatus manually in launchpad until
> upstream change their bugstatus, which would then automaticaly synced again.
> 

The point of having the bug tracker is to see what Debian's BTS is doing
with the bug. If we manually change the status we lose that information.
We actually *want* to know if Debian has a different status than Ubuntu.
However, I agree it would be nice to see the status of all tasks for a
particular bug report in the summary page.

-Jordan