101894 - Want to mark bug duplicate of multiple bugs.

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Sometimes a bug report is a duplicate that has issues on multiple other bugs. 
It would be nice to be able to mark it as a duplicate of multiple bugs.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Usually this happens when someone files multiple issues on the same bug.  And
sometimes not all of them are dupes, and a couple are still valid.  Marking one
of those bugs as a dupe would eliminate the valid issues, too.

I don't know if this is worth doing...  even if every issue on the bug was a
valid dupe, the database handling to avoid breaking any of the existing dupe
checking would be incredibly confusing :)

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I dunno about difficult issues.  I haven't thought of any really serious issue
there.

As for multiple issues, we certainly can't fix it properly in BZ2.  I believe
Hixie's plan is for multiple issues on a report in BZ3.

Comment 3

[Stephen Rasku]

At our company, if there are multiple issues reported on one bug, we resolve it
WONTFIX and ask them to file separate bug reports for each issue.

I also don't know if this is worth doing.  Supporting this would automatically
CC the user on each bug it is a duplicate of but you could just list the bug
numbers in the comment and have the reporter manually CC themselves on the bugs
they are interested in.

Comment 4

[garylizak]

how do i fix these

Comment 5

[David D. Kilzer (ddk)]

Duplicate of Bug 108040 or vice-versa?

Comment 6

[Waldir Pimenta]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Duplicate of Bug 108040 or vice-versa?

This was replied in bug 108040#c11:
> No. 101894 is about marking *one* bug as a duplicate of several others, while
this one is about marking *several* bugs at once as duplicates of a single one.