Re: Discrepancies between Commits list in changelog of debian and upstream linux git repo.

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Discrepancies between Commits list in changelog of debian and upstream linux git repo.
Date	2026-02-27 12:50 +0100
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On Fri, 2026-02-27 at 14:55 +0530, Abdul Khaliq H wrote:
> Dear Debian Kernel Team,
> 
> I hope you are doing well.
> 
> I am currently analyzing the Debian kernel source and its changelog, and I have a question regarding discrepancies between the upstream Linux kernel commits and thfe Debian kernel changelog entries.
> 
> Specifically, I observed the following:
>  *     The upstream Linux kernel version (for example, v5.10.x) contains a certain set of commits.
>  *     The Debian kernel source package (e.g., linux_5.10.xxx-1.orig.tar.xz) appears to include those upstream changes in the source code.
>  *     However, the Debian changelog (debian/changelog) does not list all upstream commits. Only some commits appear to be referenced, while others are not included in the changelog. 
[...]

I try to exclude irrelevant upstream commits from the changelog, i.e.
those that only affect architectures we don't support, self-tests, or
components or configurations we don't build (unless they are security
fixes).

I also exclude commits that only afffect documentation, since those are
self-documenting.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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