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Re: Happy New Year
From: |
Joel E. Denny |
Subject: |
Re: Happy New Year |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Jan 2011 19:13:27 -0500 (EST) |
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Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Joel E. Denny wrote:
>
> > From: Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 08:17:44 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH 2/3] maint: prepare to use date ranges in copyright notices.
> >
> > * README (Copyright statements): New section explaining the range
> > notation. The GNU coding standards require this explanation. I
Actually, it's the maintainers document not the coding standards. I fixed
that by pushing the following to master and branch-2.5.
>From 15fe6bb421f00932e92a1d5bacaf1d4cefa0522d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 18:37:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] * ChangeLog (2011-01-02): improve description.
---
ChangeLog | 11 ++++++++---
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 72605b2..6d83321 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2011-01-03 Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
+ * ChangeLog (2011-01-02): improve description.
+
+2011-01-03 Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
+
maint: don't update copyright years in bootstrap.
* .x-update-copyright: Add entry for bootstrap.
* bootstrap: Remove 2011 from copyright years. The bootstrap
@@ -14,10 +18,11 @@
2011-01-02 Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
- maint: prepare to use date ranges in copyright notices.
+ maint: prepare to use year ranges in copyright notices.
* README (Copyright statements): New section explaining the range
- notation. The GNU coding standards require this explanation. I
- copied ours from coreutils.
+ notation. The GNU maintainers document requires this explanation:
+ <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices>.
+ I copied our explanation from coreutils.
* build-aux/update-b4-copyright: Revert 2010-06-17 changes that
disabled Bison's automated use of ranges.
* cfg.mk (update-copyright-env): Likewise.
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