update_copyright: don't hardcode 1999 start year

We want repoman to be applicable to as many repositories as possible.
If necessary, we can add another layout.conf attribute that configures
the copyright start years for all files.

diff --git a/pym/repoman/utilities.py b/pym/repoman/utilities.py
index a3fdf12e014c7d6d36f6123cbc4180737227226c..7f7d62acfc13678f835e26c3242ccc833e2eb502 100644 (file)
--- a/pym/repoman/utilities.py
+++ b/pym/repoman/utilities.py
@@ -548,12 +548,13 @@ def update_copyright(fn_path, year, pretend):
                        new_header.append(line)
                        break
 
-               # these two regexes are taken from
-               # echangelog update_copyright()
+               # These two regexes are taken from echangelog
+               # update_copyright(), except that we don't hardcode
+               # 1999 here (in order to be more generic).
                line = re.sub(r'^(# Copyright \d+) ',
                        r'\1-%s ' % year, line)
-               line = re.sub(r'^(# Copyright) \d\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d',
-                       r'\1 1999-%s' % year, line)
+               line = re.sub(r'^(# Copyright \d\d\d\d)-\d\d\d\d',
+                       r'\1-%s' % year, line)
                new_header.append(line)
 
        difflines = 0