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pyqrcode / pyqrcodeNG

Python 2 and 3 module to generate QR Codes
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Use a constant copyright date #18

Open bmwiedemann opened 2 years ago

bmwiedemann commented 2 years ago

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

 /usr/share/doc/packages/python36-PyQRCode/html/_modules/pyqrcodeng.html
-    <p>&#169; Copyright 2013-2021, Michael Nooner, 2018 - 2021 Lars Heuer.</p>
+    <p>&#169; Copyright 2013-2021, Michael Nooner, 2018 - 2037 Lars Heuer.</p>

This PR was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE.

heuer commented 2 years ago

You are probably right and I support the change. But I no longer have write access to this project and it is unmaintained, see https://github.com/pyqrcode/pyqrcodeNG/issues/16

Unless it has already been added to openSUSE, I would refrain from doing so.

bmwiedemann commented 2 years ago

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.