That's my patch that I published at
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/~ben/WN3.loop.patch
Here's a corresponding patch that I just created for the lexicographer
files:
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/~ben/WN3.loop-lex.patch
It does the minimum necessary to produce the same results as the other
patch. It shouldn't change the output files' offsets. Though I'm not sure
I'd worry about this on the Debian version, since you have other patches
that do. I forget whether I ever circled back to you (Andreas) on this
before I left WordNet, but is there some kind of disclaimer in the Debian
version that points out this problem?
The short version: the file offsets, which are the easiest-to-use ID's in
WordNet, change anytime there's a change in the lexicographer files. The
synset keys, which are harder to compute, don't change nearly as
haphazardly. But, since they're harder to compute, no one uses them. So,
anyone who wants to use WordNet for research purposes will undoubtedly
come across groups that use the file-offset style of ID's, which, since
you incorporate Debian-specific patches, will be wrong for the Debian
package of WordNet.
[will respond to the rest off the debian-bugs thread]
Best,
Ben Haskell
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