On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
Am Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:58:34 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
So you wanted to add a comment totally unrelated to the bug itself to the bug? Isn't that polluting the bug report? What happened here is exactly what I'd expect - you contacted the developer.
No, this is related to the bug, because it was the same bug, only for a different package version. And such an information or the request for this information (the other bug's number) should be added to the comments, so that other people who've got this issue, too, and only find this closed bug can find the current open bug report. Otherwise everyone would need to contact the developer directly by e-mail which could be much more annoying for the developer than one or two additional comments to the closed bug report and wouldn't help other people.
See the bug referenced and the final comment in the bug. It links to two upstream bug reports