Comment 9 for bug 80902

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Curtis Hovey <email address hidden> wrote:
> This issue is more complicated than current discussion implies. Here are
> some issues that came up in two aborted attempts to address this issue.
>
> Retargeting a bug to Ubuntu is not good enough. There is very little
> chance that a bug targeted to Ubuntu will be properly triaged or ever
> fixed.

However the default for a user filing a bug in the web UI is to file
it without a source package if they don't know one. Demanding a source
package would itself be a bug because users often don't know enough to
choose the source package. Its up to the distro triage process to
select the right source package : we can get the bug to them and let
them hand it off.

> A project bug needs to be retargeted to a source package. I am
> sure the user will not always know how to choose a source package, but
> the UI must provide this level of targeting to "move" a bug instead of
> placing a bug in limbo. Also not that you cannot retarget a bug to
> Ubuntu if Ubuntu or an Ubuntu source package is already targeted.

That sounds like a defect; bugs can have multiple ubuntu /
ubuntu-source-package tasks, so retargeting a task when there is an
existing source package/distro task seems fine per our model.