Comment 9 for bug 3796

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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 3796] Duplicated bugs still show up as New in a list of bugs (also affects the Latest bugs portlet)

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:38:05AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> <https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/MaloneSearch> requires that we
> (eventually) be able to search for bug reports that are duplicates,
> aren't duplicates, or both.
>
> <https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/DuplicateBugHandling> (which I
> haven't finished yet) requires that if a duplicate marking is removed,
> the bug's tasks resume their previous statuses.
>
> It looks like the implementation plan here will allow both those things,
> but I'm not sure. If it won't, please discuss it so the plan and/or the
> specs can be adjusted.

Yes, the implementation will allow for searching for duplicates, and
for returning the bug to the state it was when it got marked as a
duplicate.

Anyway, I see this as a quick and easy fix which will improve things in
the short term. If you would come up with some other solution in
DuplicateBugHandling, this fix is easy to revert.