The launchpad "Lost something" page

[Cruz Julian Bishop]

Someone randomly looking over my shoulder looked at this
email and said that it should say

"Sorry, Dave, I can't let you do that"

OT: I agree, this will be quite annoying
for people that can't, as you made an example for,
access a bug that has been marked as the duplicate.

On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 15:57 +0200, melchiaros wrote:
> Following the last two reports on the mailing list
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1050656
> 
> and
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1050221
> 
> the "Lost Something?" launchpad website that is presented to users who 
> have no priviledges for accessing private bugs seems to be misidentified 
> by users as error or bug or broken link of launchpad.
> 
> May be the message should be a bit clearer than the actual one for users 
> that are guided from a dublicate entry of their own report to such a page.
> 
> Given scenario here:
> 
> User report - > Apport-retracing identification as a dub of a already 
> known private bug  and automatically closing as such -> user 
> misidentifies the "Lost Something" page as broken link  and dedub their 
> report wrongly
> 
> 
> Comments?
>