[m-rev.] [reuse] synchronize reuse branch with main branch

[Nancy Mazur]

* Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> [2002-09-11 09:55]:
> On 11-Sep-2002, Nancy Mazur <Nancy.Mazur at cs.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> > * Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> [2002-09-10 20:01]:
> > > On 10-Sep-2002, Nancy Mazur <Nancy.Mazur at cs.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Well, I was planning to commit it, but I obtain an endless series of
> > > > errors concerning the absence of non-uptodatedness of the copyright
> > > > message, especially in directories such as boehm_gc, etc... 
> > > > 
> > > > What do I do with these? I thought that's wat the .nocopyright file is
> > > > for?  What is the standard procedure? 
> > > 
> > > For code which is imported another source, e.g. just about everything
> > > in the boehm_gc directory except the Mmakefile, just add the relevant
> > > files to the .nocopyright file in that directory.
> > 
> > 2. I've added one specific file (BCC_MAKEFILE) to .nocopyright,
> > committed the .nocopyright file, and then tried to commit BCC_MAKEFILE.
> > It still complains about a missing copyright. 
> 
> That sounds like a bug in the check.pl script,
> which is in our repository (cvs checkout CVSROOT/check.pl).
> 
> It's probably a bit hard for anyone else to debug the problem,
> since they will have difficulty reproducing it.
> So I suggest that you debug it, e.g. if necessary by inserting
> debugging print statements into check.pl (and committing those
> changes).

It seems that when checking in files from the reuse-branch, it looks at
the .nocopyright file from the main trunk. I've temporarely added
BCC_MAKEFILE to the main trunk .nocopyright file, which enables me to 
check my reuse-branch version in without any problems.

But I wonder, it cannot be the purpose for me updating .nocopyright on
the main trunk? Haven't other developers encountered that problem when
synchronizing their branch? I mean, CVS should have complained during
the first check-in of those files, anywhere in CVS? 

Nancy
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