Re: update-copyright local hook

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 8/14/2009 1:11 PM:
>>> Hmm.  VC_LIST_EXCEPT excludes ChangeLog by default, but this is one case 
>>> where
>>> we WANT ChangeLog's copyright updated along with everything else.  Also, I
>>> think we should be exempting all forms of COPYING (such as COPYING.LIB).  
>>> And
>>> the use of .x-update-copyright seems cleaner than trying to write a sane 
>>> regexp
>>> replacement in update-copyright-exclude-regexp (after all, I just got that
>>> wrong in autoconf[1]).  Would it be better to just do the following patch?
>>>
>>> [1] 
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/6772/focus=6773
>>
>> Yes.  Good ideas, all.
>> Thanks.
>
> It changed a bit due to the merge; here's what I'm pushing.
...
>       grep -l -w Copyright $$($(VC_LIST_EXCEPT))              \
> -       | grep -v -E '$(update-copyright-exclude-regexp)'     \
> +             $(srcdir)/ChangeLog | grep -v COPYING           \
>         | $(update-copyright-env) xargs $(build_aux)/$@

Adding back in the top level ChangeLog file is good.
Do you think we should try to add back any other ChangeLog files?