Bug Expiration Criteria

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Brian Murray <brian at canonical.com> wrote:
> I was reviewing bugs that can expire in Ubuntu and became curious about
> one of the expiry criteria[0] - 'it is not marked as a duplicate of
> another bug'.
>
> What is the logic and thought process behind that criteria?  I'd think
> that the bug with duplicates is the one that shouldn't be eligible for
> expiry.

I think the reasoning is that once a bug is marked as a duplicate, it
no longer has a status of its own, therefore it's impossible for it to
expire.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>