* Jonas Smedegaard: " Re: cme trick: update your copyright year entry in debian/copyright" (Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:58:09 +0100):
> Quoting Gioele Barabucci (2026-02-12 00:00:05) > > On 11/02/26 19:02, Dominique Dumont wrote: > [...] > > > > Or maybe this is the right time to reconsider whether updating the > > copyright year is a meaningful activity :) > > > > https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years/ > > Thanks a lot for mentioning this and providing the valuable reference. > > I thought the same (and have thought it several times when routinely > bumping years in copyright notices the past month), but coulnd't recall > where I had read about it. Having a closer look this post may be not an applicable example: Daniel Stenberg removed the year ranges from the individual files [1], but kept it in the main file [2]. And that's mostly what we do in d/copyright. [1] https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/2bc1d775f510196154283374284f98d3eae03544 [2] https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/COPYING -- Mathias Behrle PGP/GnuPG key availabable from any keyserver, ID: 0xD6D09BE48405BBF6 AC29 7E5C 46B9 D0B6 1C71 7681 D6D0 9BE4 8405 BBF6
