Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header

[Peter Simons]

Jim Meyering wrote:

 > The penalty for an inadequate test would be to release without updating
 > NEWS.

so, according to your logic, expecting any of the top 10 lines of NEWS to
match a particular regular expression is "adequate", but expecting any of
the top, say 11 lines, of NEWS to match that expression is "inadequate"?

This reasoning doesn't make much sense to me. I think it's pretty obvious
that the choice of the 10 line limit is perfectly random in this context.
That number is inherently meaningless. Any other number, say 17 or 32, would
work just as well for all practical purposes. My impression is that your
opinion is based on irrational fears ("if we change the code, bad things
will happen") rather than on rational thought.

Take care,
Peter