From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copyright years update in etags test suite
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:18:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56ACFE75.1080307@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mvrnwe0z.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I fixed this, but I wonder whether we really need to do these updates
> in the etags test suite. The source files there are not maintained in
> any way, so perhaps they could be skipped?
Although I suppose skipping could be arranged in the procedure that updates
copyrights, this would be a change to copyright-notice policy which would
probably require going through channels and getting it approved.
> If we do have to update the Copyright there, then the annual update
> procedure should include the corresponding update to the
> expected-results files.
How about another idea: fix tests so that they are robust in the presence of
changes to copyright notices. After all, tests are supposed to be testing
features, not copyrights. I don't know which tests were failing and why, so I
don't know how much work this would be.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-30 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-30 10:35 Copyright years update in etags test suite Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 18:18 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-01-30 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 18:28 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-30 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 18:33 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-30 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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