[Openembedded-architecture] [RFC] Commit Patch Message Guidelines amendment

[Mark Hatle]

On 11/6/17 10:41 AM, akuster808 wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/06/2017 08:33 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 07:58:21AM -0800, akuster808 wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to amend the "Patch Message Guidelines" to include a
>>> "version affected" component if it applies.
>>>
>>> There are times when a patch can apply to other versions and providing
>>> this information will be helpful to package maintainers, stable branch
>>> maintainers and to indicate what versions are not affected by the change.
>>>
>>> Do we want to standardize on a tag or phrase? like :
>>>
>>>
>>> Affects: <, <= {version}
>> Do you have any specific examples of its usage?
> No. But I have done this in the commit message in the interim.
> 
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?h=pyro&id=99656fecf4fa6e24ba49ecb7f26f893e733818a0

With that example, I'd say it belongs in the patch header more then the commit
header.. along with the CVE tag.

However, I'm not sure about policing this or not.  As a suggestion, I think it's
valid to ask people to include this information.

--Mark

>>
>>
>>> Ideas and thoughts
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Armin
>>>
>>>
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