From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to update the copyright notice? Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 12:18:33 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <52B9EC19.9090004@cs.ucla.edu> References: <52B9D2D4.8090306@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387916330 26333 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2013 20:18:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 20:18:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Gnulib bugs , emacs-devel To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 24 21:18:56 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-bug-gnulib@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 1VvYRK-0007ku-Qk for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:18:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40333 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvYRK-0007WQ-9f for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56149) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvYR8-0007W4-DC for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:18:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvYR1-0002oK-39 for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:18:42 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:54822) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvYR0-0002oF-TG; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A49839E8121; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 12:18:34 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0qrMuVOrzFDQ; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 12:18:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-108-0-233-62.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.0.233.62]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2B0D239E8116; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 12:18:34 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Gnulib discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:33538 gmane.emacs.devel:166856 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > can it [update-copyright] stop refilling copyright notices? That's a property of Gnulib's build-aux/update-copyright script. I suspect that part of the code dates back to when we had long lists of individual years, like this: # Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. such that it made sense to refill when adding yet another year. Now, when we typically just substitute 2013 for 2012 there's less motivation for refilling. I'll CC: this to bug-gnulib, where the maintainer of build-aux/update-copyright hangs out, to see if he has some comments. I expect we can add another option or environ variable or something.