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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [PATCH v2] devel/release-checks: added checking of copyright year in\r
+ documentation\r
+Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:10:36 +0300\r
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+Check that copyright year will be current year in generated documentation.\r
+\r
+Checking is done my matching that copyright line contains current year\r
+as a substring which is good enough "approximation" in this context.\r
+---\r
+\r
+v2 of id:1438511187-11321-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi, perhaps\r
+addressing comments in id:87r3niwan6.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca\r
+\r
+ devel/release-checks.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++\r
+ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/devel/release-checks.sh b/devel/release-checks.sh\r
+index 8604a9f7d10b..5802942aa975 100755\r
+--- a/devel/release-checks.sh\r
++++ b/devel/release-checks.sh\r
+@@ -175,6 +175,21 @@ case $news_date in\r
+ append_emsg "Date '$news_date' in NEWS file is not in format (yyyy-mm-dd)"\r
+ esac\r
+ \r
++year=`exec date +%Y`\r
++echo -n "Checking that copyright in documentation contains $year... "\r
++# Read the value of variable `copyright' defined in 'doc/conf.py'.\r
++# As __file__ is not defined when python command is given from command line,\r
++# it is defined before contents of 'doc/conf.py' (which dereferences __file__)\r
++# is executed.\r
++copyrightline=`exec python -c "with open('doc/conf.py') as cf: __file__ = ''; exec(cf.read()); print(copyright)"`\r
++case $copyrightline in\r
++ *$year*)\r
++ echo Yes. ;;\r
++ *)\r
++ echo No.\r
++ append_emsg "The copyright in doc/conf.py line '$copyrightline' does not contain '$year'"\r
++esac\r
++\r
+ if [ -n "$emsgs" ]\r
+ then\r
+ echo\r
+-- \r
+2.0.0\r
+\r