Re: [bug-gettext] [PATCH] gettext-runtime/intl: Merge from glibc

[Will Newton]

On 11 December 2014 at 13:15, Daiki Ueno <address@hidden> wrote:
> Will Newton <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I recently merged gettext 0.19.3 into glibc. These are the changes to
>> flow back as part of that merge. A large number of these are updates
>> to the copyright lines with now use ranges rather than specifying
>> individual years. The remaining changes are mostly confined to _LIBC
>> conditionals.
>
> Thanks for working on it.
>
>> -   Copyright (C) 1995-1998, 2000-2003, 2005-2006, 2008 Free Software
>> -   Foundation, Inc.
>> +   Copyright (C) 1995-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> As a minor nitpicking, I'm not sure if we can join the intervals of
> copyright years.  How about using update-copyright in Gnulib?

The reason I did this is that matches the copyright in glibc, which
has the practice of using the full range of years for most files
including the intl ones. I think the reasoning is explained here:

https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html

"To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have
made nontrivial changes to the package. (Here we assume you’re using a
publicly accessible revision control server, so that every revision
installed is also immediately and automatically published.) When you
add the new year, it is not required to keep track of which files have
seen significant changes in the new year and which have not. It is
recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in the
package, and be done with it for the rest of the year. "

>   $ UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=1 ./gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright 
> gettext-runtime/intl/*.[ch]
>
> Regards,
> --
> Daiki Ueno
>



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Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro