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From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	marcin@bis.org.pl, d.lang@abatec.at, buildroot@buildroot.org,
	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Indicating upstream status [was: [PATCH] package/bluez5_utils: Fix builds with musl-libc]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:50:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230329105022.6137bf1a@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7968ace-cfbb-1c54-bdde-083a37423686@mind.be>

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:44:38 +0200
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:

> > Note: if the path header has the upstream commit sha1 and applies as-is
> > (possibly with just a bit of fuzz), then "backport from upstream" is
> > enough. But if you had to rewrite the ptch, and the header does not have
> > the upstream sha1, then add it to the note:
> > 
> >      [yann.morin.1998@free.fr: backport and adapt from upsteam 1234CDEF]  
> 
>   So this would be
> 
> Upstream: backport from 1234CDEF [yann.morin.1998@free.fr]

If we standardize in a format, then it should handle all common
situations. A patch being a backport from an upstream commit is one
situation. But here are several more situations:

- Patch taken from the upstream project, but not merged yet (from a
  pull request, a mail on a mailing list, etc.)

- Patch taken from a downstream distribution (Debian, Gentoo, Alpine
  Linux, etc.)

- Patch submitted upstream by us, but not merged yet (quite similar to
  case 1 above)

- Patch not submitted upstream for reason XYZ

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-29  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-26 13:09 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/bluez5_utils: Fix builds with musl-libc Florian Fainelli
2023-03-28 20:25 ` Yann E. MORIN
2023-03-29  8:44   ` [Buildroot] Indicating upstream status [was: [PATCH] package/bluez5_utils: Fix builds with musl-libc] Arnout Vandecappelle
2023-03-29  8:50     ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
2023-03-29  9:06       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2023-03-29  9:28         ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2023-03-29 12:39           ` Florian Fainelli
2023-03-30  7:03             ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2023-03-30 12:21               ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2023-03-30 12:33                 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2023-03-31  7:28                   ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot

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