Re: Copyright years update in etags test suite

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I fixed this, but I wonder whether we really need to do these updates
> in the etags test suite.  The source files there are not maintained in
> any way, so perhaps they could be skipped?

Although I suppose skipping could be arranged in the procedure that updates 
copyrights, this would be a change to copyright-notice policy which would 
probably require going through channels and getting it approved.

> If we do have to update the Copyright there, then the annual update
> procedure should include the corresponding update to the
> expected-results files.

How about another idea: fix tests so that they are robust in the presence of 
changes to copyright notices. After all, tests are supposed to be testing 
features, not copyrights. I don't know which tests were failing and why, so I 
don't know how much work this would be.