From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright years update in etags test suite Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:18:29 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56ACFE75.1080307@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83mvrnwe0z.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454177947 27350 80.91.229.3 (30 Jan 2016 18:19:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 18:19:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 30 19:18:58 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aPa6o-0000oj-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 19:18:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPa6n-0003Wb-Tp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:18:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPa6Z-0003RE-Bl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:18:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPa6Y-0006zL-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:18:39 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:53454) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPa6U-0006yz-QH; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:18:34 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287061605E1; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:18:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id j1_XcouJOJgk; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:18:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747461607DA; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:18:33 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id DFbEsdSo_Slt; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:18:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5323A1605E1; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:18:33 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: <83mvrnwe0z.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199051 Archived-At: 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.