changeset 101763:9268e7d84955

Can't clone a merged bug.
author Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
date Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:04:40 +0000
parents 1851b1154a27
children 594205e8404b
files admin/notes/bugtracker
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/admin/notes/bugtracker	Tue Feb 03 04:04:15 2009 +0000
+++ b/admin/notes/bugtracker	Tue Feb 03 04:04:40 2009 +0000
@@ -180,6 +180,13 @@
 The negative numbers provide a way to refer to the cloned bugs (which
 will be assigned proper numbers).
 
+NB you cannot clone a merged bug.  You'd think that trying to do so
+would just give you an unmerged copy of the specified bug number, but no:
+
+http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474742
+
+You must unmerge, clone, then re-merge.
+
 *** To set severity:
 severity 123 critical|grave|serious|important|normal|minor|wishlist