[patch] Passenger and Mail cargo amount is broken in OpenTTD (accidental quadratic growth!) - patch for r27962

[planetmaker]

Doesn't trunk OpenTTD have a patch

no. trunk is by definition "without any patches". you either have trunk, or a patch, never both.

I thought trunk has included patches, like cargodist.

As soon as it's in trunk, it's not a patch anymore. Similar like food is no food anymore (or changes its 'meaning' at least) as soon as you have eaten it.

[jfs]

They were patches before they were included, now it's just part of the game.

[EarthlingKira]

A patch is a patch because it "patches" an existing whole. The existing whole in this case is the "trunk" or "master" branch. After the patch is merged the patch becomes a part of the existing whole.

Maybe what is confusing is this: a former patch may be merged in a way into trunk so that it's optional.. But then a former patch just became a configurable game feature.