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| author | Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com> | 2013-09-06 11:56:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2013-09-10 08:43:13 -0700 |
| commit | 52d097d99176412041811ec3c8c663e4a912d2c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 5abe27a8d28dcaef0c786fbb6c6aeda03df3d253 /Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | |
| parent | acc70a0776c85acb28f75858cf80c469926498a9 (diff) | |
| download | perl-52d097d99176412041811ec3c8c663e4a912d2c7.tar.gz | |
Added release manager test for copyright year
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diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod index e900f9ce0d..4c7297f50a 100644 --- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod +++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod @@ -446,6 +446,16 @@ release, this would be 5.13.11). For BLEAD-POINT releases, it needs to refer to the previous BLEAD-POINT release (so for 5.15.3 this would be 5.15.2). +=head3 Check copyright years + +Check that the copyright years are up to date by running: + + $ ./perl t/porting/copyright.t --now + +Remedy any test failures by editing README or perl.c accordingly (search for +the "Copyright"). If updating perl.c, check if the file's own copyright date in +the C comment at the top needs updating, as well as the one printed by C<-v>. + =head3 Check more build configurations Try running the full test suite against multiple Perl configurations. Here are |