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[Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx>]

2018-03-20 0:19 GMT+02:00 Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>:

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> As it is, the patch resolves an issue and creates another.
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Actually Seth is wrong here. It doesn't create another problem. Namely, as
the code without the patch works now, it leaves the board uneditable
anyways, and without a warning. Just test with a footprint which has
nothing but ref and value and one paste-only pad. It doesn't matter whether
the pad is left there or removed after the layer is deleted. The footprint
can't be selected or edited.

I would still go with this patch, just add a sentence to the warning if
pads are deleted. "Additionally this may lead to footprints which cannot be
edited or deleted" or something like that.