Bug#321888: marked as done (merge is overly picky)
Your message dated Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:36:29 -0700
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and subject line Blocks/Blocked-by bugs need to be blocked the same way
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Tried to merge two bugs from the same source, but they happened to be
filed on different binary packages:
> merge 320987 318066
Bug#318066: libsoqt-dev: unusable with current libcoin due to ABI change
Bug#320987: libsoqt20c102: Not installable, because it depends on libcoin40 and not on
+libcoin40c2
Mismatch - only Bugs in same state can be merged:
Values for `package' don't match:
#318066 has `libsoqt-dev';
#320987 has `libsoqt20c102'
That strikes me as a bit picky. Why must merged bugs be in the same
"state"? Can we relax the rules to check source package rather than
binary package? How about ignoring the severity?
Thanks,
-Steve
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Blocked bugs (and those blocked-by) need to be blocked in the same
way; otherwise merging them will produce an undefined state. Merging
the set of blocks isn't exactly obvious either.
The implementation of forcemerge will enable the second bug to take on
the exact same state as the first bug listed, but that's not yet fully
tested. As that bug already exists in multiple forms (see #14043 et
al.) I'm closing this bug.
Don Armstrong
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