> In my mind it's very simple: trailing whitespace poses exactly _no_ > problem (except of being against the coding standard),
It's against the coding standards for a very good reason, which is that it makes patching harder because you have lines that compare differently but look identical. So removing them, while making some patches harder to apply, makes others easier into the future. Like others, my feeling is that the biggest problem here is the timing and lack of notice.
