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README.source: Mention need to refresh patches when updating upstream source

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@ -43,8 +43,16 @@ unifdef packages installed.
This will produce ../orig/linux_<version>.orig.tar.xz
(e.g. linux_3.5~rc1.orig.tar.xz).
It involves applying several patches and file deletions for DFSG
compliance, as listed in debian/patches/series-orig. Occasionally
you will need to refresh these.
3) Run: make -f debian/rules orig
This will apply the main quilt series to the upstream source, which
will usually fail due to conflicts with upstream changes. You need
to resolve those by dropping or refreshing patches.
Applying patches to the Debian kernel tree
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