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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@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 07:30:30
Message-Id: 4EA11F7D.9000102@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: proj/portage:master commit in: pym/repoman/, pym/portage/tests/repoman/ by Fabian Groffen
1 On 10/21/2011 12:09 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 21-10-2011 06:09:57 +0000, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >> UpdateChangeLog: split out/test copyright regex
4 >>
5 >> This also fixes a case where something like "Copyright 2011 " would be
6 >> replaced with "Copyright 2011-2011 ".
7 >
8 > I like this, but it should only happen when one would live in 1999
9 > (that's why I added it unconditionally), see below. I'm affraid we need
10 > the 1999 to be configured, for legal reasons (though I don't claim to be
11 > an expert on this case, just judging from the comments from echangelog).
12
13 I don't see anything like that in echangelog. What would be the point of
14 re-writing copyright start dates, when those should already be correctly
15 inherited from skel.ChangeLog anyway?
16 --
17 Thanks,
18 Zac

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