Comment 14 for bug 29713

Thank you so much, for fixing such a longstanding bug. (Excuse me you consider this confirmation just bug spam.) It affected me recently, when LP did not find existing reports with this subject:

  package manpages 3.35-0.1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/getent.1.gz', which is also in package libc-bin 2.15-0ubuntu15

(That was bug 1017289.) I had to browse the list of recent bugs for that package, to find the report, and mark duplicates. I tested an upload of the same crashfile, today, and LP directed me to the existing bug. To me this is the difference between the bug reporter feeling lost in a maze of twisty little passages, or, feeling well-guided, and that's the difference between participating or giving up.

Seeing a bug that's a million numbers old, getting fixed, is a morale booster in itself, too. A million thanks. :)