manual: clarify policy when updating a package patch
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Cc: Renaud AUBIN <root@renaud.io> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ upstream SCM software to generate the patch set.
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Otherwise, concatenate the header with the output of the
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+diff -purN package-version.orig/ package-version/+ command.
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If you update an existing patch (e.g. when bumping the package version),
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make sure the existing From header and Signed-off-by tags are not
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removed, but do update the rest of the patch comment when appropriate.
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At the end, the patch should look like:
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