cannot mark bug as duplicate of a private bug
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
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I wanted to also mark bug 333110 as a dupe of bug 332960, and I'm then told that bug 332960 is already a duplicate so I can't do that. I then typed 331327 into the duplicate-marking field, and submit that form. Submitting the form then gives me a "you don't have permission to view this page" error, I suppose because it was trying to take me to bug 331327, and the bug is not marked as a duplicate.
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What I'd like is:
1- Marking a bug as a duplicate of a bug I'm not privileged to see to work, maybe with a warning or confirmation step. On completion it would have to send you somewhere other than the private bug.
2- If a bug is a dupe of a private bug, to still show the hyperlink, with an appropriate tooltip. After all, if I'm not logged in then the hyperlink to that bug would give me a chance to log in and potentially then see it.
It is a somewhat confusing behaviour but also a somewhat unusual case. So I don't think this bug is very urgent. It would be nice if #2 was fixed at least.
| Martin Pool (mbp) wrote | #1 |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in malone: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| tags: | added: privacy |
| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote | #2 |
| summary: |
- misbehaviour in marking duplicates of a private bug + cannot mark bug as duplicate of a private bug |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | Triaged → Invalid |
bug 434733 covers the UI confusion about when links are shown etc. The core problem you ran into here was that the bug you wanted to file was a duplicate of a private bug, we have some design work to do around how duplicates and privacy interact, but I think the core symptom here is a correct behaviour, so I'm going to mark this invalid.