"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:10:05AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I went ahead and wrote the change:
>
> Enable 'make syntax-check's sc_changelog rule.
> * Makefile.maint (sc_changelog): Adapt to work with legacy
> ChangeLog entry header lines.
> * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_changelog.
> # Each nonempty line must start with a year number, or a TAB.
> +# Or day-of-week+space.
> +changelog_entry_header_regexp = \
> + ([12][0-9][0-9][0-9]| .|(Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun) )
> sc_changelog:
> - @grep -n '^[^12 ]' $$(find . -maxdepth 2 -name ChangeLog) && \
> + @grep -Evn '(^$$|^$(changelog_entry_header_regexp))' \
> + $$(find . -maxdepth 2 -name ChangeLog) && \
> { echo '$(ME): found unexpected prefix in a ChangeLog' 1>&2; \
> exit 1; } || :
Yes, it looks OK to me.
+1
Y3K bug?
Yep. That was deliberate ;-)
I'd rather be a little more strict. Who knows... it might even
catch typos with transposed initial digits.