[news.eclipse.pde] unable to run patched version of org.eclipse.pde.buil

[Francis Upton <francisu@xxxxxxxx>]

My batch build started failing when I upgraded to 3.4, so I filed this 
bug and made a patch to fix it:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=224098

Prior to M6 I was able to run the PDE build by simply replacing the 
plugin with my patched version.

However with M6 (since it's using p2) I tried to put my patched plugin 
into dropins and it would use the released plugin instead (as if my 
patched plugin was not there).  So I copied my patched plugin into the 
same directory (as if it were the released plugin).  The build script 
runs, but the ${eclipse.pdebuild.scripts} variable is not set (I 
verified that it is set correctly when using the non-patched version) -- 
so something is going wrong here.

Maybe this is more of a p2 issue, but I thought I would check here first.

Thanks,

Francis