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On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Peter Clifton wrote:
> > I have found bug reports about this dating at least as far back as May
> > 2005, but nothing seems to have been done about it in nine years.
>
> Its not like we can arbitrarily change any of the existing symbols..
> doing so would break otherwise working designs.

Is that really true?  At least on the PCB side, changes to footprint files
don't seem to take effect on a board unless the user goes through a
laborious process to manually replace them one by one.

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Matthew Skala
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