[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] manual: clarify policy when updating a package patch

Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) arnout at mind.be
Wed Dec 2 22:13:26 UTC 2015


Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
Cc: Renaud AUBIN <root at renaud.io>
---
v2: talk about 'From header' rather than 'author' (Baruch)
---
 docs/manual/patch-policy.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt b/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt
index 6e27e71..0b4604e 100644
--- a/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/patch-policy.txt
@@ -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:
 
 ---------------
-- 
2.6.2



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