Collin Funk <collin.fu...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Bruno,
>
> Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes:
>
>> Can this be rewritten in a simpler way, that does not use idioms
>> from perl's bag of tricks? Something like
>>
>> my $copyright_year = <some_expression>;
>>
>> like one would do it in every other programming language?
>
> Not sure. I'm not the most knowledgeable perl programmer. Maybe
> something like this is more clear?
>
> my $copyright_year = (split ("-", $VERSION))[0];
>
> or perhaps someone else has a better idea.That's better, but doesn't all this just hides the problem that 'make update-copyright' doesn't bump the copyright for these two files? I think the policy is to bump copyright year to 2025 as soon as possible after 2025-01-01 even if there are no other changes (which would bump $VERSION) since we publish the file via git. If we use your patch here, that wouldn't happen until some change is made that bumps $VERSION, which seems wrong. I think this patch should be reverted, and gnulib's 'make update-copyright' should be teached to update this file too. What do you think? Do you want to propose a patch to it? /Simon
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