Comment 10 for bug 48860

I have to agree that this issue is quote annoying, I reported a few bug when Kubuntu 6.06 was released. I had then been indirectly subscribed to a number of bug reports that were in one form or another duplicates of the ones that I had submitted.

Whilest I welcome any updates on the status of the original bug, I don't like the fact the scope of email notification widens as more and more duplicates of the bugs are being reported (no points for guessing that the user base of distros are increasing all the time, and that duplicate bug reports will be created).

Wouldn't it make more sense to have one central point of subscription for a specific bug?

i.e.
Duplicate bug report identified:
1) Point duplicate bug report to original bug report (supposedly only one for each unique bug)
2) Transfer email subscription from duplicate to original bug report (read: 2 steps; create new subscriptions in the original report, delete subscriptions in the duplicate report).
3) Close off duplicate bug report (no more comments).