Preventing loss of useful information when closing bugs as duplicates.

[Andrew Farris]

Lex Hider wrote:
> Should all comments for bugs closed as duplicates be added to the
> original bug.
> 
> It seems to me that useful information is lost when closing bugs as
> duplicate.
> 
> Here's an example that lead me to think about this:
> 
> ORIGINAL:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237393
> DUPLICATE: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355151
> 
> While it is clearly a duplicate bug, to me it seems clear that the
> duplicate bug contains a lot of useful and relevant information.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lex.
> 

That might be a bad mess for bugs that are marked duplicate accidentally, 
incorrectly, or just fat-fingered as duplicate of the wrong bug number.  It 
would cause a weird mixing of comments that don't follow easily from the 
previous as well.

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