Eric Blake wrote: > According to Jim Meyering on 8/14/2009 1:11 PM: >>> Hmm. VC_LIST_EXCEPT excludes ChangeLog by default, but this is one case >>> where >>> we WANT ChangeLog's copyright updated along with everything else. Also, I >>> think we should be exempting all forms of COPYING (such as COPYING.LIB). >>> And >>> the use of .x-update-copyright seems cleaner than trying to write a sane >>> regexp >>> replacement in update-copyright-exclude-regexp (after all, I just got that >>> wrong in autoconf[1]). Would it be better to just do the following patch? >>> >>> [1] >>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/6772/focus=6773 >> >> Yes. Good ideas, all. >> Thanks. > > It changed a bit due to the merge; here's what I'm pushing. ... > grep -l -w Copyright $$($(VC_LIST_EXCEPT)) \ > - | grep -v -E '$(update-copyright-exclude-regexp)' \ > + $(srcdir)/ChangeLog | grep -v COPYING \ > | $(update-copyright-env) xargs $(build_aux)/$@
Adding back in the top level ChangeLog file is good. Do you think we should try to add back any other ChangeLog files?
