Infrastructure

This is long-standing behavior that I consider a bug. That said, there are likely plenty of design conversations that predate me I'm unaware of.

When I update a Data Package by updating the metadata object and its resource map with new ones, the resourceMap field in the Solr index for the obsoleted metadata object is cleared. I expected it not to be cleared.

Why is this the way it works? The way I see it, clearing out the resourceMap field in the Solr index for the obsoleted metadata object reduces benefit of us versioning objects. When a package is cited by its metadata object's PID and the package is updated after the citation was published, a visitor to the dataset landing page will no longer see the package because the resource map isn't in the index. Of course they will be shown a link to the latest version of the package which does have a resource map but that's not what they cited.