On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Eric Blake wrote: > The original was: > > Copyright (C) 1995,97,99 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > and that pattern (4-digits followed by 2-digits, with gaps in the years, > but no spaces in the listing) is not currently tested in the > update-copyright testsuite.
I don't believe the "no spaces" is required for this bug to show. The corruption also appeared for misc/sys/file.h, for example: -/* Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 96, 97, 98, 99 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +/* Copyright (C) 11999, 20131, 1992-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com