PR checklist#

All PRs#

• just validate passes
• just lint passes on a built image
• just boot-test passes (or just boot-fast / just boot-vm)
• Commit trailer: Assisted-by: or Signed-off-by: — not Co-authored-by:
• Closes #NNN in the PR body
• I am using an agent and I take responsibility for this PR

Junction bumps (gnome-build-meta.bst or freedesktop-sdk.bst)#

• Only junction .bst files changed — no patches/ modifications in the same commit
• All existing patches in the relevant patches/ directory still apply cleanly

Junction-only bumps from mergeraptor[bot] are pre-approved once validate and e2e pass (or e2e is skipped for non-image paths).

Patch additions or removals (patches/)#

• Upstream-Status: header: Submitted / Accepted / Pending / Not-applicable
• Upstream commit or PR linked if backporting
• Drop the patch if the fix is already upstream in the new junction ref
• Filenames numbered sequentially (alphabetical = apply order)
• Exit condition documented: "Drop when fdsdk ships X" or "Drop after GBM gnome-50 reaches Y"

OCI image assembly (elements/oci/)#

• ldconfig -r /layer present after dconf update, before build-oci — see oci-assembly.md

Element changes (elements/bluefin/)#

• mkdir -p before any ln -sf
• Binary elements: ref: pinned to tag/commit, not a branch
• No date, hostname, whoami, curl in install-commands
• New systemd units enabled via BST install commands, not post-install scripts