#790: Make cabal check warn if copyright field doesn't have current year ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment(by benmachine): Copyright fields can in general contain an arbitrary string (or frequently, no string at all) so I imagine it being tricky to parse a year out of it reliably unless we also standardised the format. Think about things like (c) 2006-9 John Smith, 2009-10 Martha Jones. Plus there are plenty of packages that aren't the original work of the uploader (e.g. forks, maintainerships, cabalizations, etc.), in which case it might be inappropriate to update the copyright field. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/790#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects