[pca] patchdiag.xref inconsistency

[Don O'Malley]

Hi Martin,

I followed up with the team that generates patchdiag on Friday.

There was a recent code change to better handle EOL patches that 
triggered the issue you reported on Friday.

All should be fixed now.

Best,
-Don

On 03/10/11 08:12, Martin Paul wrote:
> Don O'Malley wrote:
>> That said, something has happened to trigger 119081-25 being marked 
>> as obsolete (I suspect this is a result of an internal process).
>
> In the current patchdiag.xref (Oct/02/11) the state of 119081-25 has 
> been reverted to active (not obsolete) again. Same for the other 7 
> patches that were affected (106922, 108982, 109082, 109647, 117662, 
> 117851, 119070). So everything is fine again.
>
> I also checked for other possible problematic patches with this command:
>
>   grep '|O|' patchdiag.xref | egrep -vi "Obsoleted by|withdrawn"
>
> It only comes up with 4 old revisions of 118822 now, which are marked 
> Obsolete and Bad, which is not a problem.
>
> If you ever find an explanation for how this happened, I'd be 
> interested to hear about it!
>
> Martin.
>

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