Comment 3 for bug 178307

Bugzilla is not "simple". (I should know, I designed part of it.) Every extra field reduces the number of bugs people will report, and increases the likelihood that developers will track some issues outside the bugtracker, making it less useful to everyone else.

But once a project becomes popular enough, adding fields is worthwhile, because the increased usefulness of bug reports that contain more information outweighs the cost of having fewer bug reports. Perhaps Ubuntu has reached that stage, so maybe it should have a field for specifying the software version, while smaller projects hosted by Launchpad should not. "What is so difficult" would be implementing the mechanism for only some projects to have those fields. Anyway, that's an issue for bug 424. I'll update this report to cover just the package guessing.