Dealing with duplicate bug reports

Gerald Pfeifer pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Feb 14 08:07:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:
> What shall I do with duplicate bug reports?  Simply close the
> duplicate, referring to the original one?

Yes. Mark it as duplicate, referring to the other one, and close it.

(In some cases, if the duplicate has a better testcase or description,
I'd close the original and keep the duplicate.)

Gerald
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