[aur-dev][PATCH] Update copyright year. Four years just passed in the blink of an eye. :)

Lukas Fleischer lfleischer at archlinux.org
Thu May 10 16:45:54 UTC 2018


On Thu, 10 May 2018 at 15:57:46, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> In pacman, we'd just run `make update-copyright` to update this in many
> files in the codebase. But it does need remembering.

That is a good thing if there are multiple locations to update but it
does not really help if there only is a single spot.

> 
> We already autogenerate the date for the main aurweb interface:
> 
> https://git.archlinux.org/aurweb.git/tree/web/template/footer.php#n8
> 
> __('Copyright %s 2004-%d aurweb Development Team.', '©', date('Y'))
> 
> cgit is different since we can only use HTML.

Yeah. We could add an intermediate step to generate the HTML footer but
I don't think the benefits would outweigh the additional maintenance
burden. So let's keep it as-is for now...

Regards,
Lukas


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