From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 15:11:32 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ; * admin/notes/years: Mention known problems with 'update-copyright'. X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.91~11 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2558b37b5e6fd437c93c9f1be5661512d2f1a629;p=emacs.git ; * admin/notes/years: Mention known problems with 'update-copyright'. --- diff --git a/admin/notes/years b/admin/notes/years index 4f1d29ef022..e9376f5d5a7 100644 --- a/admin/notes/years +++ b/admin/notes/years @@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ checkout, redirecting its output to a file, so that you could later examine the files that don't have copyright notices. Inspect the results for plausibility, then commit them. +A few known problems with the build-aux/update-copyright script: + + . it doesn't update config.bat and etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.he because + the "Copyright" statement begins in these two files after a prefix + that is more than 5 characters long + . it doesn't update the second Copyright notice, the one that gets + output into PDF and PS, in etc/refcards/ru-refcard.tex + . it doesn't update etc/refcards/gnus-refcard.tex because its + Copyright statement has a non-standard format + +These files need to be updated by hand. + You should also run the etags test suite in test/manual/etags/. It will most probably fail because the contents of the test files changes due to copyright years update, so you need to move each ETAGS and