Re: update-copyright request and patch...

[Jim Meyering]

Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello, and Happy New Year :-).

Hi Joel,

Happy new year to you, too.
Currently parted work and an imminent coreutils release are taking all of
my time.  Maybe Joel Denny can help?  At worst, I'll follow up next week.

> I am trying to use gnulib's update-copyright script to update all
> of GDB's files. It's working quite beautifully, and it's quite fast
> too. I only have a couple of issues:
>
>   - C files: In GDB, the style for comments is to avoid the '*'
>     at the start of new files. Eg:
>
>         /* Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
>            2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  */
>
>     update-copyright, on the other hand, transforms the "/*" prefix
>     into " *"...
>
>   - The script is not always working well with XML files,
>     because it potentially repeats the start-of-comment prefix
>     when wrapping lines, thus transforming...
>
>         <!-- Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
>
>         <!-- Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2012
>         <!-- Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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