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Bind issue blocked relationship to Status:blocked

I'm an enthusiastic adopter of the Status field and there's one missing use case that would really help me.

When I mark Issue B as blocking Issue A, it would be fantastic if Issue A's status became Blocked.

When Issue B is complete (or the blocking relationship is otherwise removed), Issue A should return to its previous state (ideally), or perhaps revert to the default.

I think this is optimal because I currently see blocked issues with default labels like this:

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It seems counter-intuitive to me to have to manually add a Blocked status to this issue when GitLab already knows it's blocked.

One thing occurs to me though: the default statuses in our docs do not include Blocked... presumably this is something we've specifically configured for gitlab-org? So perhaps this is where the confusion lies – we've created two different ways to mark an issue as blocked?

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