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[Julius Schmidt <aiju@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems the current origin/master will modify schematic files on disk 
just by opening them -- even if I opt out of the remap tool. This is 
rather undesirable behaviour, I don't want files to become unreadable by 
the original version that created them just because I *opened* them.

I am also curious about this format change in general; if I understand 
this correctly, this is work leading up to the new schematics format; so 
if there is already a major breaking change planned, why the need for 
*another* breaking change?

I'm also wondering whether the intent is to adopt the behaviour of the PCB 
tool regarding footprints entirely, which I find somewhat unsatisfactory; 
in particular the way it seems to have "hidden" copies of the footprints 
in the .kicad_pcb file can lead to awkward surprises; I would much rather 
have all symbol+footprint references be to a project-local library that 
contains a *single* copy of global symbols/footprints -- the old eeschema 
approximated this reasonably well with its cache library.

Apologies if this comes across as too negative; I do appreciate the work 
that goes into switching eeschema to a new format.

Best wishes

Julius