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Bug#291134: marked as done (bibtool: crossref field does not force ordering)

Your message dated Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:21:06 +0100
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and subject line bibtool: crossref field does not force ordering
has caused the Debian Bug report #291134,
regarding bibtool: crossref field does not force ordering
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Package: bibtool
Version: 2.46-2
Severity: normal


When you sort a bibtex database with bibtool,
bibtool does not keep cross-referenced entries
after the entries that do the cross-referencing.
This causes bibtex to later complain bitterly,
and causes the user to re-order the entries
by hand, and complain (but not bitterly).

For instance, the following entries
need to be in this order:

@Book{            gelman:etal:advanced,
	crossref      = {gelman:etal},
	pages         = "18--25"
}

@Book{            gelman:etal:contbayes,
	crossref      = {gelman:etal},
	pages         = "7--11"
}

@Book{            gelman:etal,
	author        = "Andrew B. Gelman and John S. Carlin and Hal S. Stern and
	Donald B. Rubin",
	title         = "Bayesean Data Analysis",
	publisher     = "Chapman and Hall/CRC",
	year          = "1995",
	isbn          = "0-412-03991-5",
	edition       = "first"
}


but bibtool sorts gelman:etal to be first.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages bibtool depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information

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Since this behaviour is a feature according to the upstream maintainer,
this bug must be closed.

Jerome

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