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Just tried version 8.0.2 (in my own branch). Current (intermediate) status is that I get patch failures (most likely due to the major version upgrade of patch), more precisely:

[  119s] Patch #8 (crash-missing-declarations.patch):
[  119s] + /usr/bin/patch --no-backup-if-mismatch -f -p1 --fuzz=0
[  119s] can't find file to patch at input line 14
[  119s] Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
[  119s] The text leading up to this was:
[  119s] --------------------------
[  119s] |From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
[  119s] |Subject: Add missing includes
[  119s] |
[  119s] |This fixes a compilation failure on ppc64.
[  119s] |
[  119s] |---
[  119s] | gdb-7.6.patch |   10 ++++++++++
[  119s] | 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
[  119s] |
[  119s] |Index: crash-7.2.7/gdb-7.6.patch
[  119s] |===================================================================
[  119s] |--- crash-7.2.7.orig/gdb-7.6.patch
[  119s] |+++ crash-7.2.7/gdb-7.6.patch
[  119s] --------------------------
[  119s] No file to patch.  Skipping patch.
[  119s] 1 out of 1 hunk ignored
[  119s] error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.Y0DStp (%prep)
[  119s] 
[  119s] RPM build warnings:
[  119s]     line 142: It's not recommended to have unversioned Obsoletes: Obsoletes: crash-kmp-trace
[  119s] 
[  119s] RPM build errors:
[  119s]     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.Y0DStp (%prep)

=> The interesting question to ask here is:

• Are the patches still necessary? (If so, they need to be adjusted/changed accordingly)

The problem is this error:
[ 119s] No file to patch. Skipping patch.
[ 119s] 1 out of 1 hunk ignored
and
[ 119s] can't find file to patch at input line 14

You have to look into the patch, which files are applied and what does not exist any more.
It seems, that anything has been applicable before. That should be kept.