[Koha-bugs] [Bug 27842] Incorrect biblionumber handling in serials subscriptions

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27842

--- Comment #13 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
I wonder if we are on the right track here by changing the information in past
serials or if this doesn't destroy useful information.

Serials are known to be odd. When you look at the national serials database
they have a graph view on their record detail pages where you can see how often
they change their names, merge with others... divide etc. It's pretty, but also
scary!
And for our catalogers every change like this means a new record.

So it makes sense that we can change which record a subscription is attached
to. The name change would not necessarily affect the subscription itself.

So could it be by design that the original biblionumber was stored? As you
said, we don't actually need it, as we have the current biblionumber in the
subscription. If it was thought to be for keeping some history, it could make
sense and the fix would maybe to stop it from deleting the issues when the
record is deleted. We could also think about updating the biblionumber of the
next expected issue when the biblionumber is changed.

Not sure about this - just something I was wondering about when I noticed the
biblionumber in serials in the past.

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