On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:43:49AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:51:11PM +0000, peter green wrote: > > On 22/03/15 13:36, Holger Wansing wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >is there a reason why the year for copyright declaration should not be > > >converted into an entity? > > >Would ease the repeating changing. > > > > > >Patch attached, works for both xml and po based translations. > > Correct me if I'm wrong here but shouldn't the copyright year only > > be updated when there is an actual change? > > Yes. I believe the copyright year is supposed to be the year of first > publication. Which is why books updated frequently usually have > multiple copyright years, one for each year new stuff got added. > You get a notice like "copyright 1968, 1979, 1997, 2014".
It might be possible to automate getting some of this information from revision control. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150323144532.gb22...@topoi.pooq.com