- add 'use warnings' and 'use strict' where missing from Perl scripts.
- fix 'Use of uninitialized value'.
- fix missing declarations.
- test1140.pl: fix 'Possible precedence issue with control flow operator'.
- fix other misc issues.
Most actual errors found during this PR were fixed and merged via
separate PRs.
Likely there are remaining warnings not found and fixed in this PR.
Closes#17877
Re-running this script now makes it track the already mentioned
changelog entries and not add them again even if the git log contains
them.
This makes the script better handle reruns in a release branch after
rebasing on a later version of master.
Closes#17937
- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- saves us from pointless churn
- git keeps history for us
- the year range is kept in COPYING
checksrc is updated to allow non-year using copyright statements
Closes#10205
Add licensing and copyright information for all files in this repository. This
either happens in the file itself as a comment header or in the file
`.reuse/dep5`.
This commit also adds a Github workflow to check pull requests and adapts
copyright.pl to the changes.
Closes#8869
This script helps putting entries in the RELEASE-NOTES using a coherent
style and sorting with a minimal human editing effort - as long as the
first line in the commit message is good enough! There's a short howto
at the top of the file.
