[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/manual: fix patch naming convention

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Aug 9 13:46:42 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Tue,  9 Aug 2016 15:33:04 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> Otherwise conflicts with the naming convention from previous section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com>
> ---
> Hi all,
> 
> While creating a patch for the gst1-imx package I wasn't sure what
> was the latest naming convention. Looking at the documentation, it
> said in section 18.1.2. that it should be:
> <number>-<description>.patch
> whereas section 18.2. still recommends:
> <packagename>-<number>-<description>.patch
> 
> Looking at the patches it is clear section 18.2 was outdated.

Indeed.

> Also, should we insist on the fact that the series file is deprecated
> in section 18.2.?

No, I think that 18.2 explains how we are applying the patches, not
what is the recommended best practice. Since we still support reading a
series file, I would keep that information.

Other than that: patch applied to master. Thanks!

Thomas
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