GNU bug report logs - #54778
copyright dates in gzip, zgrep etc. --version output

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 22:54:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 54778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54778: copyright dates in gzip, zgrep etc. --version output
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 18:37:13 -0700

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 3:54 PM Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> I noticed that 'gzip --version', 'zgrep --version', etc. still say
> "Copyright (C) 2018" in gzip 1.12, released today, and that 'make
> syntax-check' didn't catch this. I installed the attached patch to
> update the year to 2022 and to change 'make syntax-check' to try to
> catch this issue better next time.

Nice fix. Thanks.
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