Component Chooser: Component Name Clash, Issue: Uniqueness Does Not Include Library Name
Bug #1672300 reported by
Andrey Kuznetsov
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #937445: Duplicated Library Component Names Default to Original Library Components.
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Bug Description
I copied a component from default lib to my private lib, modified pinout and saved it while keeping the original name.
Component chooser shows me my new part, new pinout, so I place it into my escheema sheet, but once I do the pinout is wrong because it took the component with the same name which was in the default library.
Why is library name not part of component uniqueness check? Need to store components with library names, internally so name clashing like this doesn't happen.
People are sure to use the same names at some point and if it's in the default lib then it'll get screwed.
From the very latest nightly, from kicad-r7865.
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| Chris Pavlina (pavlina-chris) wrote | #1 |
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This is a flaw inherent in the way KiCad's library system works, and it dates all the way back to the beginning of KiCad. It is going to be changed in the near future, because we're reimplementing the entire library system to work like footprint libraries do.