[Buildroot] Indicating upstream status [was: [PATCH] package/bluez5_utils: Fix builds with musl-libc]

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:33:24 +0200
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:

>   No, the person who did the backport. It's inherited from Yann's original
> [yann.morin.1998 at free.fr: backport and adapt from upsteam 1234CDEF]
> 
>   OTOH we have the SoB a few lines below that says exactly that, and also the 
> author of the commit in buildroot that adds the patch, so it's pretty redundant 
> information.

Exactly what I was going to say: who did the backport is documented by
the SoB just below.

To me:

Upstream: https://github.com/foo/bar/commit/<hash>
Signed-off-by: John Doe <john.doe at buildroot.org>

is sufficient.

Thomas
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