Package: bibutils Version: 3.40-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch upstream According to the NCBI standard Medline format [1], the first name of the authors are specified by the <FirstName> SGML tag. The med2xml program does not comply with the specification, because the code in lib/medlin.c wrongly uses the <ForeName> tag.
In the debdiff file attached below you will find the quilt patch debian/patches/medline-author-firstname.patch that fixes the problem. Please, apply it to the Debian package and feel free to forward it to the upstream author. Last note: I checked the code for release 3.43 of bibutils [2] and the bug is still present. [1] http://xml.coverpages.org/ncbiPubFormat.html [2] http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/bibutils_3.43_src.tgz Thanks, Rafael Laboissiere -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (650, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Versions of packages bibutils depends on: ii libbibutils0 3.40-4 bibliography file converter, share ii libc6 2.7-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries bibutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
diff -u bibutils-3.40/debian/changelog bibutils-3.40/debian/changelog --- bibutils-3.40/debian/changelog +++ bibutils-3.40/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +bibutils (3.40-4.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * debian/patches/medline-author-firstname.patch: Use FirstName instead + of ForeName tag in the Author record, which is the correct SGML tag + name according to the NCBI Medline format specification. + + -- Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:34:04 +0100 + bibutils (3.40-4) unstable; urgency=low * added reftypes.h (Closes: #477654) diff -u bibutils-3.40/debian/patches/series bibutils-3.40/debian/patches/series --- bibutils-3.40/debian/patches/series +++ bibutils-3.40/debian/patches/series @@ -6,0 +7 @@ +medline-author-firstname.patch only in patch2: unchanged: --- bibutils-3.40.orig/debian/patches/medline-author-firstname.patch +++ bibutils-3.40/debian/patches/medline-author-firstname.patch @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Use FirstName instead of ForeName tag in the Author record, which is the +correct SGML tag name according to the NCBI Medline format specification +(see http://xml.coverpages.org/ncbiPubFormat.html). + + -- Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:34:04 +0100 + +--- a/lib/medin.c ++++ b/lib/medin.c +@@ -201,8 +201,7 @@ + /* <AuthorList CompleteYN="Y"> + * <Author> + * <LastName>Barondeau</LastName> +- * <ForeName>David P</ForeName> +- * <Initials>DP</Initials> ++ * <FirstName>David P</FirstName> + * </Author> + * </AuthorList> + */ +@@ -216,7 +215,7 @@ + newstr_prepend( name, node->value->data ); + } + else newstr_strcat( name, node->value->data ); +- } else if ( xml_tagexact( node, "ForeName" ) ) { ++ } else if ( xml_tagexact( node, "FirstName" ) ) { + p = node->value->data; + while ( p && *p ) { + if ( name->len ) newstr_addchar( name, '|' );
