Comment 7 for bug 69771

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 07:42 +0000, Charles Atkinson wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 328881 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328881
>
> This bug report, started on 2006-11-01, has been marked as a duplicate
> of https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/328881, started on
> 2009-02-13.
>
> I understood that later bugs were marked as duplicates of earlier bugs;
> that way the activity is kept in one place.
>
You understood incorrectly.

From a developer's point of view, it makes the most sense to mark the
bugs as duplicates of the bug that most succinctly captures the
underlying problem.

In this case, the discussion about shutdown messages in particular is
distracting to the actual problem.

Scott
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