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CONTRIBUTING: Add paragraph about the use of PKG_RELEASE tag.

Signed-off-by: Ted Hess <thess@kitschensync.net>
Ted Hess 10 years ago
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@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ Makefile contents should contain:
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     (E.g.: PKG_MAINTAINER:= Joe D. Hacker `<jdh@jdhs-email-provider.org`>)
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 * A PKG_LICENSE tag declaring the main license of the package.
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     (E.g.: PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0+) Please use SPDX identifiers if possible (see list at the bottom).
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-* An optional PKG_LICENSE_FILES including the filename of the license-file in the source-package.
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+* An optional PKG_LICENSE_FILES tag including the filenames of the license-files in the source-package.
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     (E.g.: PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=COPYING)
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+* PKG_RELEASE should be initially set to 1 or reset to 1 if the software version is changed. You should increment it if the package itself has changed. For example, modifying a support script, changing configure options like --disable* or --enable* switches, or if you changed something in the package which causes the resulting binaries to be different. Changes like correcting md5sums, changing mirror URLs, adding a maintainer field or updating a comment or copyright year in a Makefile do not require a change to PKG_RELEASE.
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 Commits in your pull-requests should:
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