On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 21:40:40 GMT, Naoto Sato <na...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> 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. I agree that fixing this date is not necessary at this time. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17/pull/303
