Per local/AGENTS.md § 'Upstream-first rule for fast-moving components':
when upstream releases equivalent or better functionality for a Red Bear
patch, the patch becomes redundant. This commits moves 69 such orphan
patches (from 251 total) from local/patches/<comp>/ to:
local/patches/legacy-superseded-2026-07-12/<comp>/
with a SUPERSEDED.md audit log explaining the classification algorithm
and providing per-component tables.
Classification algorithm:
1. For each orphan patch:
- Extract target file path from +++ b/... header
- Check fork's commit log for matching-topical commits
- If fork has >5 commits touching the topic: classify INTEGRATED
(the work was done, just under different commit subjects)
2. Special cases:
- 'bump' patches: SUPERSEDED (sync-versions.sh handles version
suffix automatically as Cat 2 fork policy)
- 'ecosystem-pins': SUPERSEDED (AGENTS.md § Local Fork
Supremacy Policy + local/AGENTS.md 'Latest-upstream-before-
freeze rule')
Result:
Before: 251 patches total, 96 orphans flagged
After: 182 patches total, 27 orphans remaining
Each removal = one less file the build-system mistakenly tried to
apply to an already-fixed fork.
The remaining 27 orphans are flagged AMBIGUOUS (keyword match was
inconclusive) and need manual review in Phase 2.2. They are NOT
deleted by this commit.
Recovery: all removed patches are preserved in
local/patches/legacy-superseded-2026-07-12/<comp>/ for reference
and can be restored via plain 'mv' if later analysis shows the
fork actually lacks the work.
vasilito
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