Re: Missing Upstream-Status tag in patch files.

[Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>]

On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 07:40 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> 
> > Li Wang - meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg-2.32.1/librsvg-CVE-2011-3146.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-2.17/eglibc-2.17-r22178.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-2.17/eglibc-2.17-PR15003-r22243.patch
> > Li Wang - meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/libxml2-CVE-2012-2871.patch
> > Andrei Dinu - meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-6.1p1/openssh-CVE-2011-4327.patch
> > Jim Somerville -
> 
> Folks,
> 
> This is a reminder that patches need to have Upstream-Status and 
> Signed-off-by tags in the patches themselves.
> 
> Please review this list below (I have most of the people on the To: line 
> also) and fix these patches with the required tags.

Saul

You included me in the To: field but I can't see any patches listed
below with my name against them.  Can you be more specific about which
ones (if any) you want me to fix?

Also, I seem to recall that the actual rule is that the patch just needs
to contain details of who wrote it, not necessarily a Signed-off-by line
necessarily.  Has that policy changed?

thanks

p.

> 
> We want these tags in order to get correct attribution of the patches 
> along with how things are working with the Upstream Project itself, as 
> we want to continue to reduce the number of patches we carry and help 
> improve the upstream project stability.
> 
> Thanks for your help with this effort
> 
> Sau!
> 
> 
> > Richard Purdie - meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/3f08ffb4a4741d147634761dc053ed386243a0de.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1/backport/0001-bfd.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1/backport/0017-ld-elf-comm-data.exp-Add-XFAIL-for-arm-targets-refer.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1/backport/0013-gas-ChangeLog.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1/backport/0003-Assemble-all-sources-files-in-each-test.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1/backport/0010-bfd-ChangeLog.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1/backport/0026-ld-testsuite.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1/backport/0005-bfd.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1/backport/0012-Fix-TLS-LD-to-LE-optimization-for-x32.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1/backport/0018-bfd.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1/backport/0014-Fix-opcode-for-64-bit-jecxz.patch
> > Khem Raj - meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1/backport/0024-bfd.patch
> > Bruce Ashfield - meta/recipes-devtools/guilt/files/guilt-update-supported-git-versions-to-1.8.x.patch
> > Mark Hatle - meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm/rpm-debug-platform.patch
> > Bogdan Marinescu - meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm/rpm-remove-sykcparse-decl.patch
> > Constantin Musca - meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt-0.9.7.7/no-nls-dpkg.patch
> > Constantin Musca - meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt-0.9.7.7/use-host.patch
> > Constantin Musca - meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt-0.9.7.7/fix-gcc-4.6-null-not-defined.patch
> > Joe Slater - meta/recipes-support/curl/curl/configure_ac.patch
> > Matthew McClintock - meta/recipes-kernel/oprofile/oprofile/0001-Allow-ppc64-events-to-be-specified-with-or-without-_.patch
> > Bogdan Marinescu - meta/recipes-kernel/oprofile/oprofile/opstart.patch
> > Dexuan Cui - meta/recipes-kernel/oprofile/oprofile/opstart.patch
> > Richard Purdie - meta/recipes-kernel/oprofile/oprofile/opstart.patch
> > Matthew McClintock - meta/recipes-kernel/oprofile/oprofile/0001-Fix-PPC64-specific-libpfm-usage-so-it-doesn-t-break-.patch
> > Matthew McClintock - meta/recipes-kernel/oprofile/oprofile/0001-ophelp-lists-events-Fix-doc-URL-for-ppc64-arch.patch
> > Phil Staub - meta/recipes-extended/libaio/libaio/libaio_fix_for_mips_syscalls.patch
>