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Re: update-copyright copyright notice corruption bug
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Eric Blake |
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Re: update-copyright copyright notice corruption bug |
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Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:27:15 -0700 |
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On 01/02/2013 12:31 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> A second check of the automatic copyright updates for glibc showed that
> update-copyright had corrupted some of the copyright notices. I've
> applied this glibc patch to fix that corruption. bug-gnulib: see
> attachment for a testcase. Run update-copyright as:
>
> UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_FORCE=1 UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=2
> UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_MAX_LINE_LENGTH=79 update-copyright ctty-input.c
Thanks for the report. In particular, the culprit line that caused the
corruptions is important to understand:
> +++ b/hurd/ctty-output.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> /* _hurd_ctty_output -- Do an output RPC and generate SIGTTOU if necessary.
> - Copyright (C) 11999, 20135, 1997-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> + Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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