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Subject: Re: [geda-user] New experimental netlist features
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On Sep 3, 2015, at 6:39 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:

>  The gschem change that caused the biggest harm to a project of mine didn’t break any script. It was a change a few years ago in attribute promotion that produced schematics with a lot of promoted footprint attributes when I had intended only to promote those that should override my medium-heavy symbols. That was a mess. I suppose that whoever made that change thought it a harmless, minor improvement.

And, today, I just discovered an instance of this problem that I’d missed for years. Deleting the two spuriously promoted attributes fixed the issue. Please, no more scenario-driven changes.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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jpd AT noqsi DOT com