Comment 2 for bug 669722

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Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote : Re: [Bug 669722] Re: comment numbers have changed! - corrupting bug reports

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Gavin Panella
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> I think we should abandon sequential comment numbering, and only provide
> stable links for comments based on their primary keys. This would also
> remove a lot of complexity from the code.

This will break a lot of existing links - I've seen numerous bug
reports referencing earlier comments by number, and URLs posted to
forums to particular comments containing a howto or problem solution.

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