[PATCH] maint: changing NEWS' copyright date must not invalidate checksum

[Jim Meyering]

Imagine my surprise when the immutable-news part of
"make syntax-check" failed.

Did I miss something?  I *know* I've run "make syntax-check"
numerous times recently.

The problem was simply the updated Copyright date change I'd
just merged in.

I've fixed it so that Copyright line is now exempt.


>From 0e40e9de57589095dba048a64dd842c116916dc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:09:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint: changing NEWS' copyright date must not invalidate 
checksum

* maint.mk (NEWS_hash): Don't let the Copyright date line contribute
to the checksum.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update to reflect the new policy.
---
 cfg.mk   |    2 +-
 maint.mk |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 0e42042..8078ef6 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ gnulib_dir = /gnulib
 # Now that we have better (check.mk) tests, make this the default.
 export VERBOSE = yes

-old_NEWS_hash = e56dee27333ad86eaf0aa7ac7d04fca5  -
+old_NEWS_hash = 791cf10529d00853f6363ca67f360747  -

 # Ensure that the list of O_ symbols used to compute O_FULLBLOCK is complete.
 dd = $(srcdir)/src/dd.c
diff --git a/maint.mk b/maint.mk
index 72b986c..f1c1e8a 100644
--- a/maint.mk
+++ b/maint.mk
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ sc_const_long_option:

 NEWS_hash = \
   $$(sed -n '/^\*.* $(PREV_VERSION_REGEXP) ([0-9-]*)/,$$p' \
-     $(srcdir)/NEWS | md5sum -)
+     $(srcdir)/NEWS | grep -v '^Copyright .*Free Software' | md5sum -)

 # Ensure that we don't accidentally insert an entry into an old NEWS block.
 sc_immutable_NEWS:
--
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