Commit b6ad806f contained a date a month in the future. With this patch
all release dates in NEWS may at most be three days into the future
(assuming the build machine's clock is correct).
---
autotools/check-news | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/autotools/check-news b/autotools/check-news
index 9a22995..146faf2 100755
--- a/autotools/check-news
+++ b/autotools/check-news
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/usr/bin/python
#
-# Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 Google Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2011, 2012, 2013 Google Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ RELEASED_RE = re.compile(r"^\*\(Released
(?P<day>[A-Z][a-z]{2}),"
UNRELEASED_RE = re.compile(r"^\*\(unreleased\)\*$")
VERSION_RE = re.compile(r"^Version \d+(\.\d+)+( (beta|rc)\d+)?$")
+#: How many days release timestamps may be in the future
+TIMESTAMP_FUTURE_DAYS_MAX = 3
+
errors = []
@@ -115,6 +118,13 @@ def main():
# would return an inconsistent result if the weekday is incorrect.
parsed_ts = time.mktime(time.strptime(m.group("date"), "%d %b %Y"))
parsed = datetime.date.fromtimestamp(parsed_ts)
+ today = datetime.date.today()
+
+ if (parsed - datetime.timedelta(TIMESTAMP_FUTURE_DAYS_MAX)) > today:
+ Error("Line %s: %s is more than %s days in the future (today is %s)" %
+ (fileinput.filelineno(), parsed, TIMESTAMP_FUTURE_DAYS_MAX,
+ today))
+
weekday = parsed.strftime("%a")
# Check weekday
--
1.8.1.3
