are the egcs patches useless?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < m3n2dzdk2p.fsf@vvv.vsu.ru >you write:
  > This is a VERY sad news. I wonder, who makes and distributes patches,
  > and for WHAT PURPOSE?!?!?, if they are simply useless because of
  > rejects... It is also interesting, HOW one can manage to make a bad
  > patch having two source tarballs....
Chill out and relax, no need to yell.

We had some problems with 0321-0328; the root of the problem was a
CVS bug.

jeff