Maybe I did something really stupid, but I couldn't apply the patch to the recent master, and neither could I figure out what was the last commit this patch would work on, so I manually (and a bit painfully) introduced the changes and managed to make it build after fixing a few implicit conversions which appear to be disallowed by the compiler options (taking warnings as errors, I think).

Excuse my noobishness, did I get right that this diff didn't get committed as of yet? When can we expect it if so?
Thanks

In T61632#622044, @Ulysse Martin (youle) wrote:

I think this is the same bug: related to : https://developer.blender.org/rB2f737c4f475a56 (@Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) commit)

When we checkout the previous commit, suzanne is displayed correctly in front view:

It might be relevant: Appending a mesh and curve from a 2.80 .blend into 2.79 renders the curve occluded in both object and edit modes.

I have also found this to be the case with meshes, when one of them is set to "in front" and both are selected and going into edit mode, no matter which one is the active object. But I do not know if this is to be expected anyways in this not-so-common case.

Sorry, and thanks for clearing this up.

Hello, this is still broken in 2.77a