Re: update-copyright make rule?

[Eric Blake]

> > I'd rather not have to manually add this snippet to 5+ projects,
> and
> > keep it synchronized in case of changes.

Ditto.

> 
> I thought the second grep would be specific to the project.  For
> example, 
> Bison won't exclude ChangeLog.  Any files that should be left alone
> for 
> every project could be listed in update-copyright itself.

But this can be accomplished via a default setting in maint.mk
which the package developer can then override in the package-specific
cfg.mk to an appropriate list of files to exclude in the second grep.

-- 
Eric Blake