From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11090 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2005 01:18:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 11083 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Dec 2005 01:18:49 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (HELO mail-out4.apple.com) (17.254.13.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:18:47 +0000 Received: from relay6.apple.com (a17-128-113-36.apple.com [17.128.113.36]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jB71Ia1D005601; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:18:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [17.201.26.110] (il0102b-dhcp60.apple.com [17.201.26.110]) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id CA4293BA; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:18:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4396386C.5080209@apple.com> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:38:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Copyright year in startup message ... References: <20051122192034.GD11233@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20051122192034.GD11233@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-12/txt/msg00128.txt.bz2 Joel Brobecker wrote: >Mark just pointed out to me that the copyright year in the startup >message printed by GDB is still 2004. I think the year should be updated >at the begining of the year, at the same time as we rotate the ChangeLog. >Agreed? (in which case we should insert a section with the procedure to >follow at the start of each year) > This is unbelievably picayune, but technically the copyright year shouldn't actually get changed until somebody changes something in a source file (rotating the changelog wouldn't count). Empirically this almost always happens within the first few days of the year, so the window to notice the discrepancy is pretty small. Stan