[Koha-bugs] [Bug 8559] conflicting item statuses

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8559

--- Comment #5 from Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> ---
There are two situations I can think of off the top of my head when a librarian
would want to check out a waiting item to someone other than the person it is
on hold for:

1. Someone else is picking up the item on behalf of that person. We get this
all the time with husbands picking up books for their wives. If we want to
check the item out to the person who is showing us their card, we have to
override the hold and check it out to them. In this case we would want to
choose to remove the hold upon checkout.

2. A book which had been made waiting for someone accidentally was put on the
shelf and someone brings it up to check out. In this case we would check out
the item (because it's our mistake, not the patron's) and keep the hold. In
this case the proper thing would be to remove the waiting status but keep the
hold at the top of the list.