299220 - Cannot remove a component from the components list without re-assigning the bugs

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: Administration, task)

Description

[kevin.jackson]

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Over at Apache Ant, we have a deprecated component (Antidote).  It has some bugs
listed, but they're all closed.  Apparently we cannot remove this component from
BugZilla without re-assigning the (closed) bugs to some other component.  As the
bugs aren't relavent to the other components we're stuck with a deprecated
component on our list.

Please correct me if I'm wrong (I did search the bug database with 'delete
component assign', but I couldn't see anything that matched what we want to do).

Thanks
Kev

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a component
2. Assign bugs to component
3. Close bugs
4. Delete component

Comment 1

[timeless]

you don't really want to delete the component, that'd be bad. personally i've
been leaning toward creating a graveyard product and just moving old components
into it (mind you, component moving doesn't exist either).

Comment 2

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

If, instead of moving the bugs to some Graveyard product/component and thus
preserving historical data, you really want to delete the bugs, you can switch
the allowbugdeletion parameter on and try again.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to comment #2)
> you really want to delete the bugs, you can switch
> the allowbugdeletion parameter on and try again.

Correct. This is the right to do.