Bug#487093: cloning bug does not clone usertags

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

severity 487093 wishlist
retitle 487093 when cloning bugs, consider creating usertag clones
thanks

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Package: debbugs
> Severity: normal
> 
> Cloning a bug appears to not clone the usertags.  I just saw this with bugs 
> 442684 and its clone 487091, which lost the 
> debian-qa@lists.debian.org/qa-doublebuild usertag.

Yes, because usertags exist outside of bugs, not within a bug itself.

I can see arguments for and against cloning user tags; the main issue
programatically is that at the time bgus are cloned, the only way to
figure out what tags affect a cloned bug is to search through all of
the usertags, and duplicate those usertags which apply to the cloned
bug. That's possible to do, but not trivial.


Don Armstrong

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