On 21-10-2011 00:30:05 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 12:09 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > On 21-10-2011 06:09:57 +0000, Zac Medico wrote:
> >> UpdateChangeLog: split out/test copyright regex
> >>
> >> This also fixes a case where something like "Copyright 2011 " would be
> >> replaced with "Copyright 2011-2011 ".
> > 
> > I like this, but it should only happen when one would live in 1999
> > (that's why I added it unconditionally), see below.  I'm affraid we need
> > the 1999 to be configured, for legal reasons (though I don't claim to be
> > an expert on this case, just judging from the comments from echangelog).
> 
> I don't see anything like that in echangelog. What would be the point of
> re-writing copyright start dates, when those should already be correctly
> inherited from skel.ChangeLog anyway?

Sure, but this is mainly intended for ebuilds and files (like init
scripts?), I guess.  I considered using skel.ebuild for .ebuild files,
perhaps that's just the best to avoid hardcoding any years.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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