On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:58:34 -0600 > schrieb Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> So you wanted to add a comment totally unrelated to the bug itself to >> the bug? Isn't that polluting the bug report? What happened here is >> exactly what I'd expect - you contacted the developer. > > No, this is related to the bug, because it was the same bug, only for a > different package version. And such an information or the request for > this information (the other bug's number) should be added to the > comments, so that other people who've got this issue, too, and only > find this closed bug can find the current open bug report. Otherwise > everyone would need to contact the developer directly by e-mail which > could be much more annoying for the developer than one or two > additional comments to the closed bug report and wouldn't help other > people. See the bug referenced and the final comment in the bug. It links to two upstream bug reports
