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author | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2016-03-15 01:29:45 +0000 |
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committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2016-03-15 01:38:59 +0000 |
commit | 0f3b517e44873de3dd0398cb5341dd356d5b4967 (patch) | |
tree | 74515b4b2fcf53c700911567363cbf4adc6183b8 /debian/README.source | |
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README.source: Document convention for bracketted prefixes in changelog
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diff --git a/debian/README.source b/debian/README.source index 2a9f02ced9f2..05718907591f 100644 --- a/debian/README.source +++ b/debian/README.source @@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ Aside from those general rules: + Build fixes for configurations that we don't use + Fixes for lockdep false positives +If you have time, please add bracketted prefixes to the upstream +change list as described below under "Changelog conventions". + Applying patches to the Debian kernel tree ========================================== @@ -108,6 +111,25 @@ make -f debian/rules source The resulting source can be found below debian/build. +Changelog conventions +===================== + +If a change only affects some architectures, flavours or featuresets, +this should be noted with a bracketted prefix on the changelog line: + +* [<fset>] Change to featureset <fset> +* [<arch>] Change that affects Debian architecture <arch> +* [<arch1>,<arch2>...] Change that affects Debian architectures + <arch1>, <arch2>, ... +* [<arch>/<flavour>] Change that affects kernel flavour <flavour> + on Debian architecture <arch> +* [<arch>/{<flavour1>,<flavour2>...}] Change that affects kernel + flavours <flavour1>, <flavour2>, ... on Debian architecture <arch> + +You can use wildcards to cover multiple values, e.g. 'arm*' for armel, +armhf and arm64 architectures. Also 'x86' is used to cover the Debian +architectures amd64, i386 and x32. + Kernel config files =================== Configuration files are constructed dynamically from a number of config |