[Koha-bugs] [Bug 34200] Lists and merge catalog records

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34200

--- Comment #5 from Andrew Fuerste-Henry <andrewfh at dubcolib.org> ---
(In reply to Phil Ringnalda from comment #4)
> Gotta have every possible opinion on it ;)
> 
> Being in a list is more like items: while merging bibs, we don't ask you
> whether you want to move the items or throw them away, nor do we throw some
> of them away without mentioning it, we just move them to the kept record.
> 
> Or, like being in an acq order.

I should clarify: a mechanism to select which lists to keep when merging
records would be ideal. But in the absence of such a list, I'd rather see the
final merged record kept in *all* lists that the pre-merged records were in.
That seems more likely to be the desired outcome more often than simply keeping
the lists from the main record. Further, in the cases where keeping all lists
was not the desired outcome, it's relatively easy to correct. Re-adding a
record to one or more lists from which it was silently dropped would be more
difficult.

In other words, I think there's a bug here, a merged record *should* be kept in
all lists that previously contained the records that have been merged.

And then there's room for an enhancement to make that behavior more flexible.

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