Comment 7 for bug 677536

On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 05:22 +0000, Robert Collins wrote:
> Ubuntu ships things (like plymouth) that are developed in other
> distros (Redhat, for the plymouth example). I assume, perhaps
> incorrectly, that being able to query, show, search all plymouth bugs
> would be useful to Ubuntu developers. The bug tracker federation
> support is growing, and this sort of link will be needed eventually to
> meet that use case - no?

We do want to support this. This has some overlap with the "launchpad is
its own upstream" issue, and relates to my upstream-downstream links
branch. mpt and barry both spoke to me about the need for unified bug
listing. plymouth in this case wants to do one search to see its bugs,
and the bugs that are in Ubuntu or all distros. We value unified bug
reports, so we decide not to track bugs in the project, we track them
only in Ubuntu. We know this is wrong, and that is cannot be sustained
as Ubuntu community projects are adopted by other communities.

This example also steps into the source package name problem. Fedora and
Gentoo user often report Lp does not support or know about their
packages. This is true. Gentoo package names are incompatible with
Debian. When users report that a bug affects a package in a non-Debian
distro, they are chooses a package they think is the same. Plymouth is
probably safe to choose. Ack is not. ack-grep != ack != text/ack. Ack is
a kanji checker in Debian, it is a grep replacement in Fedora, and it
does not exist in Gentoo.

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