A quick list of rules for committing stuff into netfilter git: - Always add an appropriate description, in git format (i.e. first line is a summary) - Please try to include references to bugs when the description does not include total discussion coverage or when the bug report is external to netfilter-devel, e.g. "Closes: netfilter bugzilla #123", or "Reference: http://bugs.{debian,gentoo}.org/..." - If you touch any parts of libxtables (xtables.c, include/xtables.h.in), make sure the so-version is updated _appropriately_ (i.e. read the libtool manual about Versioning:: first, if need be) in configure.ac. Adding fields to a struct always entails a vcurrent bump. - Check, whether a bump (vcurrent,vage) has already been made since the last release (no more than one per release), e.g.: git log v1.4.4.. configure.ac