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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: referencer: should not overwrite user-supplied metadata with data from online sources
- From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 20:09:02 -0700
- Message-id: <20070513030902.14850.88544.reportbug@localhost>
Package: referencer
Version: 1.0.2-1
Severity: normal
Presently, if I manually correct the errors in the information Referencer
downloads from crossref.org (see bug #423584) and then accidentally select
'get metadata' for an article that needed correcting, Referencer will wipe
out my corrections and put back the bad information from online.
Referencer should, for each piece of metadata in its library, keep
track of whether that information was provided by the user, imported from
another reference library, scraped out of the document, or downloaded from
an online source, and should never overwrite information from a source
earlier in this list with information from a source later in this list.
This may sound like a wishlist feature, but it's not, because not doing this
causes data loss.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages referencer depends on:
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.18.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.18.0-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.18.0-5 The Bonobo UI library
ii libboost-regex1.33.1 1.33.1-10 regular expression library for C++
ii libc6 2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.6-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.2-6 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.18.0.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgconfmm-2.6-1c2 2.14.2-1 C++ wrappers for GConf (shared lib
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-4 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglademm-2.4-1c2a 2.6.2-2 C++ wrappers for libglade2 (shared
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.12-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.12.7-1 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit (
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.8.1-2 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome-vfsmm-2.6-1c2a 2.14.0-1 C++ wrappers for GnomeVFS (shared
ii libgnome2-0 2.18.0-4 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c2a 2.14.0-1 C++ wrappers for libgnomecanvas2 (
ii libgnomemm-2.6-1c2 2.14.0-1 C++ wrappers for libgnome (shared
ii libgnomeui-0 2.18.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomeuimm-2.6-1c2a 2.14.0-1 C++ wrappers for libgnomeui (share
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.18.1-2 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.12-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.8.8-1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared
ii libice6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.16.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpoppler0c2 0.4.5-5.1 PDF rendering library
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libsm6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.2-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-2 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.28.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.1-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
referencer recommends no packages.
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