Re: updating copyright years

[Jim Meyering]

Joel E. Denny wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Joel E. Denny wrote:
>
>> I just ran update-copyright on gnulib.  It warns about a long list of
>> files.  There are various problems:
>>
>> 1. "@copyright{}" or "©" instead of "(C)".
>
>> In my opinion, update-copyright should be extended to handle #1.
>
> The following patch implements that.
>
>>From e1295037485637515e510c918fbf586df3b715fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Joel E. Denny <jde...@clemson.edu>
> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 23:06:24 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] update-copyright: support @copyright{} and &copy;
>
> * build-aux/update-copyright: Implement and document.
> * tests/test-update-copyright.sh: Test.
> ---
>  ChangeLog                      |    6 ++++++
>  build-aux/update-copyright     |   19 ++++++++++---------
>  tests/test-update-copyright.sh |   27 ++++++++++++++-------------
>  3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
> index ba72930..9591fdb 100644
> --- a/ChangeLog
> +++ b/ChangeLog
> @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@
>
>  2009-08-03  Joel E. Denny  <jde...@clemson.edu>
>
> +     update-copyright: support @copyright{} and &copy;
> +     * build-aux/update-copyright: Implement and document.
> +     * tests/test-update-copyright.sh: Test.
> +
> +2009-08-03  Joel E. Denny  <jde...@clemson.edu>

Thanks!
That looked fine, so I pushed it.

The only change I made was to move your new ChangeLog to the
beginning of the file.