Redundant "Tags" field is added to bug descriptions in Launchpad

I believe I specifically asked for this information to be added to bug reports as I have seen reporters remove apport's tags when adding their one. Subsequently, I'd prefer it stayed.

Personally I'm leaning slightly towards removing it as well, since it's hard to search for the Tags: field anyway. I don't have a strong opinion about it, though. Brian, in what way is this field useful? Do you have scripts which look at it?

I haven't actually used it yet so if somebody feels strongly about removing it then I'm fine with it. If I were to search for the Tags filed I would have used a database query so it wouldn't have been as hard as using launchpadlib.

So just like upload() sets the actual tags, download() should grab the actual tags instead of the Tags: field, and the Tags: field should not be put into the description.

trunk r1696

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.12-0ubuntu1

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apport (1.12-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - launchpad.py: Add options 'escalation_subscription' and 'escalation_tag'
      for handling bugs with more than 10 duplicates.
    - crashdb.conf: For Ubuntu, escalate bugs with >= 10 duplicates to
      "ubuntu-bugcontrol" and tag them with "bugpattern-needed".
      (LP: #487900)
    - general-hooks/generic.py: Filter out crashes on missing GLX
      (LP: #327673)
    - Add bash completion script. Thanks to Philip Muškovac. (LP: #218933)
    - launchpad.py: Drop APPORT_FILES whitelist for download() and instead
      just filter out file extensions that we know about (*.txt and *.gz).
      (LP: #444975)
    - launchpad.py: Do not put the Tags: field into the bug description, since
      they are already proper tags. In download(), convert the real tags back
      to the Tags: field. (LP: #505671)
    - test/crash: Update expected core dump flags for changed rlimit behaviour
      in Linux 2.6.32.
    - launchpad.py: Fix marking of 'checked for duplicate' for bugs with
      upstream tasks.
    - launchpad.py, get_fixed_version(): Do not consider a bug as invalid just
      because it has any invalid distro package task.
  * debian/local/setup-apport-retracer: Switch to lucid.
  * debian/local/setup-apport-retracer: Do not locally install python-apt and
    friends, users can run apt-get install in DC dchroots now.
  * debian/local/setup-apport-retracer: Don't add the retracer PPA for now,
    everything we need is in lucid.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:51:15 +0100