Upon updating app-misc/editor-wrapper, I've noticed that echangelog had mangled the dates in the header of files/editor-wrapper-4.sh. It had changed 2009-2011 to 1999-2011. Since the file was created from scratch in 2009, that change is clearly wrong. For files in FILESDIR, could echangelog please leave the dates alone?
(In reply to comment #0) > For files in FILESDIR, could echangelog please leave the dates alone? s/dates/starting date/
echangelog should only change Gentoo copyrights. So we have 1999 - ... in *all* ebuilds. If something in files/ is "owned" by Gentoo, why shouldn't the copyright date be the same as in our ebuilds and other files?
Because a starting year of 1999 is nonsensical for a file that was created in 2009. IANAL, but the U.S. Copyright Office says that a copyright notice should contain "the year of first publication of the work": <http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html#401>
This should be fixed in app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.8.2. Please test.
Seems to work fine in 0.2.8.1 already (i.e. the ending year is increased but the starting year is left alone). But in 0.2.8.2, I get: $ echangelog foo Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at /usr/bin/echangelog line 595, <C> line 3.
Closing, since echangelog and gentoolkit-dev are deprecated.