Cannot retarget bug watch tasks between bug contexts that do not use LP for bug tracking

[Micah Gersten]

WORKAROUND: use lp-shell (thanks to wgrant)

 t = lp.load('/wireshark/+bug/943649')
 t.target = lp.load('/debian/+source/wireshark')
 t.lp_save()
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Symptoms
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An upstream project had a bug on it (via a bugwatch) which should have been on an upstream distribution (with the same bugwatch). Neither use LP for tracking bugs.

Trying to retarget the task with the watch on it does not permit retargeting to contexts that do not use LP for bug tracking.

Analysis
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Our vocab for picking targets excludes things that don't use LP for bug tracking. This is arguably inverted when the task being retargeted has a bug watch.

Solutions
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Probably we want to permit any active bug context to be used, and discard the bug watch if there was one and the target does use LP, and conversely require a bug watch (possibly created on the fly) when the target does not use LP.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Aaron Bentley (abentley)]

When entities do not use Launchpad for bug tracking, we do not create bugs for them.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Umm, we do have "upstream" tasks for them, this is what I was trying to do, convert a project "upstream" task to a distro "upstream" task.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Do you mean a 'bug watch' ? Thats all we permit for contexts which
don't use LP for bug tracking.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Yes, but the bug watch is connected to a task.