This isn't strictly true. If the Publication Tag is the same as the Pub ID, it works.
I suggest we add some extra protection on Pub Tag edits though. We only NEED to edit them if we've got duplicates.
Ideally, we'll use Pub IDs only internally in future and prevent that problem, and Pub Tags will only be needed as we've been recommending those for external links to our data.
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The change failed and was backed out in r2009-17a. Since we don't have all-numeric Tags in the database at the moment, we can address this problem by preventing their creation in the future and not have to worry about this.
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This isn't strictly true. If the Publication Tag is the same as the Pub ID, it works.
I suggest we add some extra protection on Pub Tag edits though. We only NEED to edit them if we've got duplicates.
Ideally, we'll use Pub IDs only internally in future and prevent that problem, and Pub Tags will only be needed as we've been recommending those for external links to our data.
Fixed in biblio/pl.py 1.12
Implemented in r2009-17.
The change failed and was backed out in r2009-17a. Since we don't have all-numeric Tags in the database at the moment, we can address this problem by preventing their creation in the future and not have to worry about this.