Cannot handle multiple copyright lines
Bug #506043 reported by
John A Meinel
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bazaar Copyright Updater Plugin |
Confirmed
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Related to bug #506041
The code also doesn't know how to handle multiple copyright lines. Eric de Castro Lopo added a copyright hook for his coding, which checks to make sure that the current date is listed in one of many copyright headers, where each line is a different author.
It might be interesting to have this as a configuration. Certainly Bazaar can determine what authors modifed the file, and what years they did so. If we really wanted to, we could use annotate information, and auto-prune out authors whose lines are no longer present.
| Changed in bzr-update-copyright: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Robert Dyer (psybers) wrote | #1 |
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This is something I was hoping to find/do when someone pointed me to this project.
Basically we have a copyright header that looks roughly like:
/*
* Copyright (c) 2009 Author1, Author2, Author3
* Copyright (c) 2010 Author1, Author3, Author4
*
* GPL Text here
*/
which I was hoping to automatically update. The author list could come from bzr log perhaps.