Comment 7 for bug 41834

Felix: I notice now that you are the person who filed bug 27458. I sincerely apologise if I have done you wrong. Also, I am not a programmer, neither lazy nor productive. :-)

I did a search for this issue prior to filing the bug, and checked about a dozen bug reports that seemed to possibly describe this issue. However, I failed to find your report then - "I was not likely to find it", I'd say.

Now, only after filing the bug did I find your report, at which point I had to decide what to do. As I wrote, I did not feel comfortable editing someone else's text then, and considered my report to be more descriptive, as I had identified the package that caused the bug.

You write that "The age of a keyboard has nothing to do with vttys being unusable". True. However, I don't think the VT's _are_ unusable. (I admit, they are hard to use. You can still press Ctrl-L to redraw the screen.) In parallel to your claim, I could write that "claiming 'tty[1-6] unusable' has nothing to do with 'unknown key' error messages thrown to the screen" - I hope you see what I mean. :-)

Then again, actually both of our reports are duplicates. They are duplicates of the two old ubuntu.com bugzilla reports that I have referenced here. And those have even been marked as fixed (well, one as fixed and the other as duplicate) - the fix just isn't available in Breezy.

Now, in the end: I appreciate your reasoning that older bug reports should be valued to respect the bug's real age. However, a "good bugreport" also has other qualities than "not being a duplicate".

If you consider it worth your while, it is still possible to incorporate the information from this report to the older report. In order to do so, the description (and title) of that report need to be edited to reflect what is known about the bug. In addition, that report has to be marked with the appropriate package ("hotkey-setup"), so it gets identified better.

Regardless of how this issue is handled in the Launchpad, I hope that it does get addressed.