Cannot reject some duplicate questions

[marcobra (Marco Braida)]

i'm an answer contact of Ubuntu i usually remove (reject) duplicate similar questions sent to launchpad, in the last 3 weeks sometimes in cannot remove duplicate questions for example this https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+question/139436 and some others.

i get this message:

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I can remove without any issue some other duplicates questions. So i think this might be a launchpad bug.

Thank you ad best regards

Marco

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

A recent change to fix the permissions working with questions from the package perspective broken the distribution perspective. At this moment, questions targeted to packages can only be rejected (administered) by package answer contacts. This is wrong. A answer contact for a distribution must have permission to administer the question about a distribution package. We are clearly missing this test case.

The fix will be in security.AppendQuestion() The method matches the users question targets (answer contact for) to the current question target. The method may want to adapt the question target to an IDistribution or use self.obj.distribution to also do the check.

[marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra)]

As a workaround to remove duplicate questions, if the question is assigned to a package, i remove the question source package association to none and then i can remove the question.

Hth

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r12901 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/12901>.