[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | New make target 'update-copyright-year' (!1241)

[Development of GNU's TLS library]

Tim Rühsen commented on a discussion on cfg.mk: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1241#note_333907901

>  	echo "If everything looks well, commit the gnulib update with:"
>  	echo "  git commit -m "Update gnulib submodule" gnulib"
>  
> +# Update Copyright year in tools and docs
> +
> +update-copyright-year:
> +	$(AM_V_at)$(SED) -i "s/\"2000-....\"/\"2000-`date +%Y`\"/g" src/args-std.def.in
> +	$(AM_V_at)$(SED) -i "s/ 2001-.... / 2001-`date +%Y` /g" doc/gnutls.texi

Sorry, but that converts to
```
Copyright @copyright{} 2001--2021 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
```

Do you see the two dashes instead of one ?

I have the feeling that we are shooting birds with cannons. We have a working solution - why are we going to overcomplicate that ? update-copyright is complex and not even doing what we expect it to do...

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