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Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos.
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Cc: Kazu Hirata <kazu at cs dot umass dot edu>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:25:08 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: [patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos.
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > You're updating copyright dates on individual files in both the user and
> > internals manuals, but the overall copyright dates of the internals manual
> > in gccint.texi also need to be updated (gcc.texi has already had its dates
> > updated).
>
> I tend to disagree. Changes like these do not warrant updating _any_
> copyright dates at all.
My statement is that the overall dates printed in the manual should be the
union of those for the individual files (various files in the internals
manuals have already had more significant changes this year) rather than
one on the significance of spelling fixes.
I wouldn't change copyright dates for spelling fixes, but making
spelling-only fixes to Ada files in the past has led to followup patches
from the Ada maintainers which just update the copyright years to include
the year of the spelling fix, and do nothing else (presumably this is part
of their merge procedures from FSF GCC).
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk