>  I have time to look at the changes to sip4-tqt, but checking bug 
>1790 the patches are crossed out and gone - what is up?

The patches were pushed to git. Typically when patches are pushed 
we try in the bug report to remember to tag the patches as 
obsolete. That way people do not get confused and try to use a 
patch that is already pushed, which then will cause build failures 
and confusing messages about asking to reverse the patch.

Darrell