Re: [PATCH] update-copyright: apply to self

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering wrote:

> Ironic, indeed.
> Do you know how it was missed the first time?

I suspect you cloned or updated gnulib in 2014, then made a change in a private 
copy, then on Jan 1 I ran 'make update-copyright' and pushed 
b9bfe78424b871f5b92e5ee9e7d21ef951a6801d, then this year you copied your private 
copy into your staging area without noticing that this changed the copyright 
date back -- an understandable mistake, since the change is about copyright 
dates so a cursory check with 'git diff' could miss the glitch.  So when you 
committed the groff \(co fix in 06c61ed439c29bf0ff6261462afef6f84e772643 the 
date changed back.

By the way, the biggest hassle for me with 'make update-copyright' is this sort 
of thing in .texi files:

-Copyright @copyright{} 2004--2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 2004--2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

I have to make these changes by hand, I assume because the Perl script doesn't 
recognize "--" as part of a year range.  I briefly looked into fixing this but 
my Perl is rusty.