On 29.05.19 23:39, David Bremner wrote: >> Also, how do you move to a new upstream version ? > > use git merge, typically from an upstream tag, or from a debian specific > upstream branch with tarballs imported on top of upstream history.
Uh, that creates an pretty ugly, unreadable git repo and makes interacting w/ upstream (eg. submitting patches) unncessarily hard. That's something I regularily see w/ crappy vendor kernels, which then take lots of time to bring them into some somewhat usable state :o --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287