Re: update-copyright request and patch...

2012-01-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Joel Brobecker wrote: >>> > Yep, this is what we did for this year. I just want to go one step >>> > further and just collapse all years into one single range, based on >>> > the fact that I have verified that we have made significant changes >>> > to at least one file each ye

Re: update-copyright request and patch...

2012-01-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Joel Brobecker wrote: >> > Yep, this is what we did for this year. I just want to go one step >> > further and just collapse all years into one single range, based on >> > the fact that I have verified that we have made significant changes >> > to at least one file each year since 1986. >> >> I hav

Re: update-copyright request and patch...

2012-01-26 Thread Simon Josefsson
Joel Brobecker writes: >> > Yep, this is what we did for this year. I just want to go one step >> > further and just collapse all years into one single range, based on >> > the fact that I have verified that we have made significant changes >> > to at least one file each year since 1986. >> >> I

Re: update-copyright request and patch...

2012-01-26 Thread Joel Brobecker
> > Yep, this is what we did for this year. I just want to go one step > > further and just collapse all years into one single range, based on > > the fact that I have verified that we have made significant changes > > to at least one file each year since 1986. > > I have already done this for som

Re: update-copyright request and patch...

2012-01-06 Thread Karl Berry
I just want to go one step further and just collapse all years into one single range, based on the fact that I have verified that we have made significant changes to at least one file each year since 1986. Based on my conversations with rms about this, I feel safe to say that that

Re: update-copyright request and patch...

2012-01-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Joel Brobecker writes: >> Good news: the GCS has been updated to explain that using copyright >> year ranges is now ok. The only conditions are that you perform >> >> https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6576 >> >> the strict conversion (i.e., "2002,2004" cannot be converted t

Re: update-copyright request and patch...

2012-01-06 Thread Joel Brobecker
> Good news: the GCS has been updated to explain that using copyright > year ranges is now ok. The only conditions are that you perform > > https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6576 > > the strict conversion (i.e., "2002,2004" cannot be converted to > "2002-2004") and that you a

Re: update-copyright request and patch...

2012-01-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Joel Brobecker wrote: > Hi Jim, > >> 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. > > This really has no urgency at all. I've done the update for GDB and > we are good for another year. > > Al

Re: update-copyright request and patch...

2012-01-05 Thread Joel Brobecker
Hi Jim, > 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. This really has no urgency at all. I've done the update for GDB and we are good for another year. Also, I am trying to get the OK from t

Re: update-copyright request and patch...

2012-01-05 Thread 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-copyright request and patch...

2012-01-02 Thread Joel Brobecker
Hello, and Happy New Year :-). 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.