Comment 42 for bug 434733

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote : Re: [Bug 434733] Re: marking public bug as duplicate of private bug leads to confusing UI

On 15/09/13 20:53, JohnWashington wrote:
> @wgrant: Of course you can't make a private bug public just because
> someone marked a public bug as a duplicate. But see my comment #28 to
> you. Bugs are being unnecessarily marked private in some cases. And
> non-confidential attachments are being unnecessarily stripped.
>
> This leads to a system where only the privileged developers can
> investigate bugs.

That's what bug #764414 is about: the problem is that apport is creating
awkward relationships with private bugs. That's not Launchpad's fault.