As a result of following this bug, I have filed a bug report (Bug #61957) against the Malone, the bugtracker used by Ubuntu.
The essence of the bug report is that Malone defaults to not showing reports if they are either "fix released" or "duplicate". This is counter-intuitive and has, in my opinion, contributed to the flood of duplicates. A user checking bug reports would reasonably believe that no report had been filed. -- Flashplugin-nonfree in backports fails to install https://launchpad.net/bugs/61404 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
