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@@ -85,7 +85,11 @@ of thumb could be used as a guideline:
<li>
adding a patch to fix a build-time issue that prevented users from
building the package (since it does not affect users who already
- managed to build it),
+ managed to build it) unless: it affected runtime behaviour in some way
+ (e.g. <c>-Wformat</c> or <c>-Wimplicit-function-declaration</c> fixes);
+ the package may have been miscompiled, or the change is substantial
+ (if adding a huge patch to fix a problem, the chances of an unexpected
+ issue being introduced by it are larger).
</li>
<li>adding a trivial documentation fix,</li>
<li>