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because a) copyright only expires 70 years after the death of the author and b) users might look at this string to see how current this software is but this will be misleading when it is rebuilt later. and c) for reproducible builds we want to be able to rebuild packages later and still get bit-identical output. In this case, it produced diffs in /usr/share/doc/packages/python36-PyQRCode/html/_modules/pyqrcodeng.html - <p>© Copyright 2013-2021, Michael Nooner, 2018 - 2021 Lars Heuer.</p> + <p>© Copyright 2013-2021, Michael Nooner, 2018 - 2037 Lars Heuer.</p> This patch was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE.
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You are probably right and I support the change. But I no longer have write access to this project and it is unmaintained, see #16 Unless it has already been added to openSUSE, I would refrain from doing so. |
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https://code.opensuse.org/package/python-PyQRCode/tree/master looks like we moved to NG two weeks ago. Matej Cepl seems to have done that switch. |
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Use a constant copyright date
because a) copyright only expires 70 years after the death of the author
and b) users might look at this string to see how current this software is
but this will be misleading when it is rebuilt later.
and c) for reproducible builds we want to be able to rebuild packages later
and still get bit-identical output. In this case, it produced diffs in
This PR was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE.