> > I'd rather not have to manually add this snippet to 5+ projects, > and > > keep it synchronized in case of changes.
Ditto. > > I thought the second grep would be specific to the project. For > example, > Bison won't exclude ChangeLog. Any files that should be left alone > for > every project could be listed in update-copyright itself. But this can be accomplished via a default setting in maint.mk which the package developer can then override in the package-specific cfg.mk to an appropriate list of files to exclude in the second grep. -- Eric Blake