On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 21:36:58 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/jdk.hotspot.agent/share/man/jhsdb.1 line 1: >> >>> 1: .\" Copyright (c) 2019, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights >>> reserved. >> >> This seems not correct? > > According to the comments in the makefile > (`closed/make/UpdateOpenManPages.gmk`) the copyright line is taken from the > original Markdown file, so if the year is wrong there, it will be wrong in > the generated nroff file. > > I think it would be incorrect to edit the dates locally in these files, > because they'll just be overwritten when we generate the files again. > Ideally, the dates should be fixed (if necessary) in the Markdown files, but > that seems out of scope for this P1. > > This is "just" an issue with copyright dates in source files ... and yes, > while I know copyright dates are important, this problem is arguably part of > an ongoing more general problem. > > I note that the generated files *do* correctly identify themselves with > `2021` in the visible output generated to the console by the `man` command. Thanks for the explanation, Jon. Fine by me. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17/pull/303
