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Linked collections loose linking when duplicating parent collection
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System Information
Operating system: Windows
Graphics card: gtx 970

Blender Version
version: 2.80 (sub 48), branch: master, commit date: 2019-03-13 00:20, hash: bf9904ec8018, type: Release
build date: 12/03/2019, 18:04

Short description of error
when duplicating a collection with a linked collection inside -> the linked collection creates its own data and won´t be linked

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
The collection "Link" was linked via draging the collection with CTRL pressed onto the default collection "Collection"
further details are on the attached picture

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Lukas Wieg (cglukas) created this task.Mar 13 2019, 3:04 PM
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Archived.Mar 13 2019, 4:13 PM
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) claimed this task.
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) added a subscriber: Sebastian Parborg (zeddb).

The tool tip states that it will recursively duplicate or duplicate linked depending on what you choose.

So this is not a bug, it is how it is intended to work.

Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) changed the task status from Archived to Unknown Status.Mar 13 2019, 4:23 PM
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) reassigned this task from Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) to Dalai Felinto (dfelinto).
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to 50.

Actually it doesn't work as expect if you duplicate linked (not just duplicate as in the pictures).

I would expect the linked collect to still be the same as before, not a new one.

Bastien Montagne (mont29) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Archived.Mar 13 2019, 7:53 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a subscriber: Bastien Montagne (mont29).

No, this is working as expected currently (duplicating collections and objects recursively, 'linked' is for obdata, which are not duplicated in that case). There are at least two or three more behaviors ('weaker' duplications) that we could add here, but things are behaving as expected according to design currently. Design (re)discussion should definitively happen imho, but that will happen outside of bug tracker context.