Commit aafff459 authored by Arnout Vandecappelle's avatar Arnout Vandecappelle Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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manual: clarify policy when updating a package patch 



Signed-off-by: default avatarArnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Renaud AUBIN <root@renaud.io>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
parent 80677e02

docs/manual/patch-policy.txt

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@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ upstream SCM software to generate the patch set. 
Otherwise, concatenate the header with the output of the

+diff -purN package-version.orig/ package-version/+ command.



If you update an existing patch (e.g. when bumping the package version),

make sure the existing From header and Signed-off-by tags are not

removed, but do update the rest of the patch comment when appropriate.



At the end, the patch should look like:



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