This change helps to make libguestfs package build reproducible. See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good. Without this patch, building today's libguestfs in 2033, claims Copyright (C) 2009-2033 Red Hat Inc. which cannot be correct. This affected files like /usr/include/guestfs-gobject.h /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Sys/Guestfs.pm /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/guestfs.py /usr/lib64/ocaml/guestfs/guestfs.mli Commits like 212762c59351822e9db7d3dc82afe1765808d918 will take care of updating the year. --- generator/docstrings.ml | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/generator/docstrings.ml b/generator/docstrings.ml index fa7b1668a..b480d036e 100644 --- a/generator/docstrings.ml +++ b/generator/docstrings.ml @@ -68,9 +68,7 @@ let version_added = function Some (sprintf "%d.%d.%d" major minor release) | _ -> None -let copyright_years = - let this_year = 1900 + (localtime (time ())).tm_year in - if this_year > 2009 then sprintf "2009-%04d" this_year else "2009" +let copyright_years = "2009-2018" (* Generate a header block in a number of standard styles. *) type comment_style = -- 2.16.4 _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs

This change helps to make libguestfs package build reproducible. See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good. Without this patch, building today's libguestfs in 2033, claims Copyright (C) 2009-2033 Red Hat Inc. which cannot be correct. This affected files like /usr/include/guestfs-gobject.h /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Sys/Guestfs.pm /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/guestfs.py /usr/lib64/ocaml/guestfs/guestfs.mli Commits like 212762c59351822e9db7d3dc82afe1765808d918 will take care of updating the year. --- generator/docstrings.ml | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/generator/docstrings.ml b/generator/docstrings.ml index fa7b1668a..b480d036e 100644 --- a/generator/docstrings.ml +++ b/generator/docstrings.ml @@ -68,9 +68,7 @@ let version_added = function Some (sprintf "%d.%d.%d" major minor release) | _ -> None -let copyright_years = - let this_year = 1900 + (localtime (time ())).tm_year in - if this_year > 2009 then sprintf "2009-%04d" this_year else "2009" +let copyright_years = "2009-2018"