Check that copyright year will be current year in generated documentation.
The checking is done my matching that copyright line contains current
year as a substring which is good enough "approximation" in this context.
---
devel/release-checks.sh | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/devel/release-checks.sh b/devel/release-checks.sh
index bf0d68a444b6..b655a5089e12 100755
--- a/devel/release-checks.sh
+++ b/devel/release-checks.sh
@@ -207,6 +207,18 @@ case $news_date in
append_emsg "Date '$news_date' in NEWS file is not in format
(yyyy-mm-dd)"
esac
+year=`exec date +%Y`
+echo -n "Checking that copyright line in documentation contains $year... "
+copyrightline=`exec python -c "__file__ = 'command-line'
+with open('doc/conf.py') as cf: exec(cf.read()); print(copyright)"`
+case $copyrightline in
+ *$year*)
+ echo Yes. ;;
+ *)
+ echo No.
+ append_emsg "The copyright in doc/conf.py line '$copyrightline'
does not contain '$year'"
+esac
+
if [ -n "$emsgs" ]
then
echo
--
2.0.0
