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manual: clarify policy when updating a package patch

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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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Arnout Vandecappelle 2015-12-02 23:13:26 +01:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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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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