maint: don't update copyright years in bootstrap.

* .x-update-copyright: Add entry for bootstrap.
* bootstrap: Remove 2011 from copyright years.  The bootstrap
version we're currently using comes from an older version of
gnulib.
* bootstrap.conf (bootstrap_sync): Add comments explaining this
issue.

4 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/.x-update-copyright b/.x-update-copyright
index 58e51a69..14487e12 100644
--- a/.x-update-copyright
+++ b/.x-update-copyright
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 COPYING
+^bootstrap$
 ^doc/fdl\.texi$
 ^doc/gpl-3\.0\.texi$
 ^doc/yacc\.1\.in$
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7de49c85..72605b2f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2011-01-03  Joel E. Denny  <joeldenny@joeldenny.org>
+
+	maint: don't update copyright years in bootstrap.
+	* .x-update-copyright: Add entry for bootstrap.
+	* bootstrap: Remove 2011 from copyright years.  The bootstrap
+	version we're currently using comes from an older version of
+	gnulib.
+	* bootstrap.conf (bootstrap_sync): Add comments explaining this
+	issue.
+
 2011-01-02  Joel E. Denny  <joeldenny@joeldenny.org>
 
 	maint: run "make update-copyright".
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index ecf25178..dcd47739 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ scriptversion=2010-11-20.03; # UTC
 
 # Bootstrap this package from checked-out sources.
 
-# Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index b7558e36..5a12b695 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -72,4 +72,9 @@ bootstrap_epilogue()
   touch src/parse-gram.[ch]
 }
 
+# Keep our bootstrap script in sync with gnulib's.  If we ever need to
+# maintain our own bootstrap script again, set this to false, remove
+# the bootstrap entry from the file .x-update-copyright, and add any
+# needed copyright years to the copyright statement in the bootstrap
+# script.
 bootstrap_sync=true