Comment 1 for bug 1042993

Hello Jeff Truthan ,

"base_partner_surname" is part of the extra-addons, which are maintained by the community, including all the modules created by "OpenERP" or "Tiny", as none of these are actively developed by our teams anymore.

So If you or anyone from the community would like to work on it, please mark the bug as "In progress" and assign it to yourself (or ask us or anyone from OpenERP Drivers to do it for you). In the mean time, we will mark it as "Won't fix" to indicate that no further progress is expected at the moment. If you require further assistance with any trouble while updating the module, do not hesitate to ask here or via a question: https://answers.launchpad.net/openobject-addons

Would you please contact to author for more detail and explanation.
I hope you understand, and perhaps this explanation will be helpful to you if you start fixing this extra-addon...

Thank you!

PS: For whomever works on fixing this, you probably want to apply/merge your changes in both the 6.0 and trunk branches of extra-addons:
 - https://code.launchpad.net/~openerp-commiter/openobject-addons/extra-6.0
 - https://code.launchpad.net/~openerp-commiter/openobject-addons/trunk-extra-addons