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bugs - "also affects distribution" option

Asked by macki

Hi, I was subscribing to a bug and wanted to add that it affects the linux distribution I use (Xubuntu 13.04). This distribution was not available (using the menu on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/activity-log-manager/+bug/1167531/+distrotask), the list seems a bit peculiar in that there are some of the less known distros while many major ones are not present. How can we get Xubuntu added to the list?

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#1

Xubuntu isn't a distribution of its own; it's a flavour of Ubuntu, using only packages from Ubuntu. A bug in Xubuntu is a bug in the Ubuntu distribution on Launchpad.

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macki (macki) said : 		#2

Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate that Xubuntu is considered a flavour of Ubuntu, but I still think it would be useful to list it. For the purpose of bug reporting, it can be useful to eliminate bugs specific to certain environments / window managers.

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#3

You could use a tag for that. As far as Ubuntu and Launchpad are concerned, the single Ubuntu task is how this should be tracked.

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#4

To clarify, the meaning of "affects" is more along the lines of "needs a fix in the code". So it doesn't make sense to have a separate Xubuntu task, as the Xubuntu code is the Ubuntu code.

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