[Koha-bugs] [Bug 25387] Avoid merge different type of authorities

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25387

--- Comment #15 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
(In reply to marion.durand from comment #14)
> Hi !
> In my understanding (I can be wrong), Marcel is saying that we shouldn't
> only allow merging when the losing record is unused, because if we notice
> two record we want to merge and both of them are used, we will have to
> manually relink them (to make one used and the other not). And only then we
> can merge the record. 
> 
> So it's not the actual merging that would be a problem but the process
> before, to make the merge possible.

I think the relinking of records of the same authority type is a solved
problem. 

I was thinking about use cases where we could safely allow merging of different
auhority types where the relinking is much harder because the MARC fields are
not the same in MARC21 for different.

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