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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Policies
 * Pull requests should follow [OE-Styleguide](https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Styleguide) with the following additions:
   * Use 4 spaces for indention always
   * For splitting of long list values use four-space indentation on sucessive lines and prefer the closing quote as the first character ([OE-Styleguide](https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Styleguide) - second example)
-  * Pull-requests with patches fixing issues for musl, clang or gold-linker are accepeted only with upstream-status "Applied" or "Backport"
+  * Pull-requests with patches fixing issues for musl, clang or gold-linker are accepeted only if patches have upstream-status "Applied" or "Backport" and contain a link to the upstream patch.
 
 
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