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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: proj/portage:master commit in: pym/repoman/, pym/portage/tests/repoman/
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:35:34
Message-Id: 20111021083507.GM91713@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: proj/portage:master commit in: pym/repoman/, pym/portage/tests/repoman/ by Zac Medico
1 On 21-10-2011 00:30:05 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 10/21/2011 12:09 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
3 > > On 21-10-2011 06:09:57 +0000, Zac Medico wrote:
4 > >> UpdateChangeLog: split out/test copyright regex
5 > >>
6 > >> This also fixes a case where something like "Copyright 2011 " would be
7 > >> replaced with "Copyright 2011-2011 ".
8 > >
9 > > I like this, but it should only happen when one would live in 1999
10 > > (that's why I added it unconditionally), see below. I'm affraid we need
11 > > the 1999 to be configured, for legal reasons (though I don't claim to be
12 > > an expert on this case, just judging from the comments from echangelog).
13 >
14 > I don't see anything like that in echangelog. What would be the point of
15 > re-writing copyright start dates, when those should already be correctly
16 > inherited from skel.ChangeLog anyway?
17
18 Sure, but this is mainly intended for ebuilds and files (like init
19 scripts?), I guess. I considered using skel.ebuild for .ebuild files,
20 perhaps that's just the best to avoid hardcoding any years.
21
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23 --
24 Fabian Groffen
25 Gentoo on a different level

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