On 5/31/19 4:19 PM, Petr Lautrbach wrote:
Based on https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Contributing Signed-off-by: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Merged with whitespace fixes applied.
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