Comment 5 for bug 502454

That would be me :-)

I'm pretty new in this community, and have been working on bugfixing in the software-properties package. As I have been told when I raised the question myself, it's not the date that matters when marking an issue as duplicate, but the amount of information, clarity, or anything else that would make one report seem more useful to the developers than another. If they are more or less equivalent, then it doesn't matter much which is marked as duplicate... any open issue will eventually get fixed (hopefully!), regardless of submitter or date.

The submitter felt that the new submission was clearer - if you feel that the two issues are not the same, or that the earlier one better describes it, or any mistake has been made in either of the reports, feel free to correct them - we're all on the same team here :-)

To unmark a duplicate, I think you just edit the duplicate setting to be blank.