Adding upstream version 2.38.1.upstream/2.38.1upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+Release schedule
+----------------
+
+The util-linux package uses the <major>.<minor>.<maintenance> version
+numbering scheme.  Since the major version is pretty much fixed, any
+release means an increment of the minor number.  The minor version is
+incremented roughly twice per year.  The easiest way to estimate when
+the next version will appear, is to look at the time stamp of the last
+release.
+
+Before each release there are a few release candidates, which will be
+collectively tested.  During the test period changes to the code base
+are restricted.  Usually there are two release candidates.
+
+  what	 length		what will be accepted into upstream
+  ---------------------------------------------------------
+  rc1	 1-2 weeks	bug fixes only
+  rc2	 1-2 weeks	translations, fatal/trivial bug fixes
+
+The period between a release and the next release candidate can be considered
+as the merge window.
+
+The release tarball is generated by "make distcheck" command.
+
+Release criteria
+----------------
+
+For all releases it is required that:
+
+   - make checkincludes passes
+   - make checkconfig passes
+   - make distcheck passes
+   - cd tests && ./run.sh passes
+   - an out-of-tree build works
+     (cd .. && mkdir build && cd build && ../util-linux/configure && make)
+
+   - ideally: a build with uClibc works, and --with-slang works
+
+See also
+--------
+
+../README