[mythtv-users] 0.26 -> 0.27 UPnP Failure?

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Nigel Jewell <nigel.jewell at grufty.co.uk> wrote:
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> It seems that the fix was investigated by the Portable UPnP team
> (http://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/mailman/message/32290824/) but hasn't yet
> made it into VLC.  Rather than wait any longer I've created a small patch
> (i.e. big fudge) for MythTV 0.27 that works around this.

Is there a reason you did not just patch your copies of VLC rather
than patch a conforming application?