Comment 2 for bug 52613

Matthew Paul Thomas writes ("[Bug 52613] Re: "Duplicate" system is conceptually erroneous"):
> The description of forcemerge is quite similar to the behavior I've
> specified in the DuplicateBugHandling spec (except for the "you are
> responsible for notifying submitters" part).

There is a very important difference. `forcemerge' has an identical
effect to a series of reassign, reopen, close, etc., followed by
merge. Ie, there is _no master bug_.

After the merge is complete, all of the merged bugs are equal in
status. There is no privileged bug. All of the bugs are merged with
each other and none of them is a duplicate of any other one in
particular.

I'm sorry if I seem to be repeating myself but this, the most
important difference, seems not to have come across.

_There is no privileged `master' bug_.

Ian.