Bugs open for earlier series are hard to find once closed for trunk(non-series scope)

[Michael Bienia]

It's very hard to find a bug again if it has some (distro) tasks still open (e.g. a SRU bug or a security bug) and the "Ubuntu" tasks is already closed.

It doesn't appear on the "Ubuntu" bug listings anymore but only on the listings for that release which I normally doesn't look at. One has to remember that there are some tasks still open and check the bug listings for every release to find them again.

For example, bug 122207 is (at the time of writing) fixed for Ubuntu because it is fixed in Gutsy. It is still open for Dapper, Edgy, and Feisty, but does not show up at <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=vlc+code+execution>.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

This is important - we have 5 releases supported now, and it's tedious to search through them all for a bug. I wouldn't particularly want targetted bugs appearing with normal, untargetted bugs, but it would be nice to have an overview over all releases and general distro bugs.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Can you give an example of one of these bugs that doesn't show up in a search from the main Ubuntu Bugs page?

[William Grant (wgrant)]

See bug #122207, or one of likely hundreds of other security-related bugs.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Multiple examples in the dupe.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Dropping this to low for now - patches would be wonderful, or escalate via stakeholders. This is related to the seriesonlybugtask proposal - the issue is that searches on 'ubuntu' do not search *any* task specific bugs at all.