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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/25/2018 8:12 AM, jp charras wrote:
> Le 24/06/2018 à 21:52, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>> Are we planning on fixing this for rc3?  If so, what is required.  I'm fine with waiting a day or
>> two to tag rc3.
>>
> 
> Attached a possible fix.
> 
> The board test file shows really broken layer set in a few pads:
> - no layers for some pads (the layers section is empty).
> This make no sense for me.
> 
> After tests, It is not possible to create this empty layer set from Pcbnew (even with old 2013
> stable version).
> 
> My opinion is the board (or the footprints) was modified by hand (or by a script).

If this is the case, then I'm not thrilled about applying this patch
even if it does solve the problem.  We should not be modifying KiCad to
fix other people's coding errors.

> 
> This patch is short and fixes silently this kind of issues.
> (I am not sure it is worth to try a better fix, because this issue cannot happens when editing a
> board from pcbnew)
> 
> 
> 
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