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; * admin/notes/years: Mention known problems with 'update-copyright'.

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@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ checkout, redirecting its output to a file, so that you could later
examine the files that don't have copyright notices. Inspect the
results for plausibility, then commit them.
A few known problems with the build-aux/update-copyright script:
. it doesn't update config.bat and etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.he because
the "Copyright" statement begins in these two files after a prefix
that is more than 5 characters long
. it doesn't update the second Copyright notice, the one that gets
output into PDF and PS, in etc/refcards/ru-refcard.tex
. it doesn't update etc/refcards/gnus-refcard.tex because its
Copyright statement has a non-standard format
These files need to be updated by hand.
You should also run the etags test suite in test/manual/etags/. It
will most probably fail because the contents of the test files changes
due to copyright years update, so you need to move each ETAGS and