Re: bad copyright years

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> There's not a single change that has been done in config.bat in the
> years 2003 and 2005.  maintain.texi says (in node "Copyright
> Notices"):
>
>        To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which
>     you have made nontrivial changes to the package.

Changes to the _package_, not to the _file_.

> So why add to config.bat years that didn't see any changes in that
> file?

Because the Emacs package saw change in those years.

> Btw, why isn't this change reflected in ChangeLog?

To be honest, because the prospect of potentially writing ChangeLog
entries for 4000 files appalled me. These changes are all changes in
"comments" (essentially), which have no impact on how the code
performs.



PS Fun times ahead in 3 weeks when every single file in Emacs needs
"2007" adding to the Copyright years...