Re: updating copyright years

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Updating copyright year lists piecemeal is tiresome and unnecessary, now.
> 
>     http://marc.info/?l=coreutils-bug&m=124788185110393&w=2

Hey, since 2006 already!
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=2a577fa2027dc966eadcdd71a9b5f6e699f89165

Such a good news, and I missed it for 3 years!

> Would anyone object to my mass-updating all
> FSF-copyright year lists in gnulib to include 2009?
> (of course, I'd exclude files that are still
> in sync with originals elsewhere)

No objection on principle, from me. The 'update-copyright' module
works fine for me in most cases. But it has no testsuite, therefore it
may surprise us.

For example I note that
  $ build-aux/update-copyright < lib/gc-gnulib.c
gives a warning.

So, just show the diffs, so that people can see whether they have objections.

Bruno