Comment 10 for bug 1334

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Prateek Karandikar (prateek.karandikar) wrote : Re: "Also affects:" "Project…" and "Distribution/Package…" links should be merged

This whole "also affects" thing is incredibly confusing, and I came here to report a bug about it. Please clarify the following:

product
project
distribution
package

and how they relate to each other. For example, does a project have several packages?

The UI is very frustrating: for example, I want to mark the fact https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/198708 is related to https://launchpad.net/kde . I tried "also affects projects" and entered kde, and got an error saying "There is no project in Launchpad named "kde". Please search for it as it may be registered with a different name." . Searching for it in the dialog box provided leads to the very annoying error message "Too many matches. Please try to narrow your search." . It's just KDE, how can I narrow my search?

I've had similar issues when I had reported a bug for ubuntu-website ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/ ) and I wanted to mark it as affecting Ubuntu too. Same error, "There is no project in Launchpad named "ubuntu". Please search for it as it may be registered with a different name."

Ubuntu is one of the major projects/products/whatever-you-call-it on Launchpad, and if I search for it, I should get it. Surely Launchpad's search cannot be that bad?