332541 - suggestion: add additional dependency/relation field for bugs/request: "obsoletes"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 12286

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920

The "depends on" and "blocks" fields are already incredibly useful, however sometimes there are dependencies (or rather relations) between bugs/requests that neither literally "depend on" each other, nor "block" each other directly, rather a particular bug/request may actually make another bug/request OBSOLETE if addressed (indeed, this could even be a two-way relation between bugs/requests).
In particular, this is often the case with feature requests, where implementing a certain request may make related requests obsolete. Likewise, implementing a feature request may address other bugs, too.
Thus, it would be nice if there was a way to support this relationship directly in BugZilla.

Thanks for considering this suggestion

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12286 ***

Comment 2

[Michael]

not sure if this is really a duplicate of #12286: I did check #12286 before  posting this request, and it seemed much more comprehensive and complex than what I am suggesting here:
Basically, adressing this one could be as simple as adding the same field type as "depends on" and "blocks" are-while 12286 is significantly more involved (on the other hand, while this request is not literally a duplicate of 12286, implementing it could very well be done if 12286 was indeed available).

So, the relationship between bugs #332541 & #12286 may indeed be a good example for the point of having inter-dependencies that are not necessarily duplicates.

Which is to say: Bug #12286 might OBSOLETE Bug #332541 ;-)