listing ports@FreeBSD.org as maintainer

Ben Crowell crowell04 at lightandmatter.com
Thu Jun 24 15:06:17 PDT 2004


>>>> I'd like to suggest that if the maintainer of a port doesn't want to
>>>> list his
>>>> own address, READMEs should just read like this:
>>>>     <p>If needed, you may contact the  port <a href=
>>>>     "mailto:ports at FreeBSD.org">mailing-list</a>.</p>
>>
>>> These ports are free for adoption, so there is no maintainer
>>> involved. The READMEs are generated by a script, you want want
>>> to provide a patch.
>>
>> Sure, sounds like a good idea. Where is the script?
>
>   <http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk?rev=HEAD&content-
>type=text/x-cvsweb-markup>

Here's a context diff for the patch I would propose.

$ diff --context bsd.port.mk.original bsd.port.mk
*** bsd.port.mk.original        Thu Jun 24 14:41:44 2004
--- bsd.port.mk Thu Jun 24 14:52:50 2004
***************
*** 4461,4466 ****
--- 4461,4468 ----
                                        $${__softMAKEFLAGS} pretty-print-run-depends-list)"'|' \
                        -e 's|%%TOP%%|'"$$(${ECHO_CMD} ${CATEGORIES} | \
                                                           ${SED} -e 's| .*||' -e 's|[^/]*|..|g')"'/..|' \
+                       -e 's|"mailto:gnome at FreeBSD.org">maintainer</a> of this port|"mailto:gnome at FreeBSD.org">gnome at FreeBSD.org mailing list</a>|' \
+                       -e 's|"mailto:ports at FreeBSD.org">maintainer</a> of this port|"mailto:ports at FreeBSD.org">ports at FreeBSD.org mailing list</a>|' \
                ${TEMPLATES}/README.port >> $@
  
  # The following two targets require an up-to-date INDEX in ${PORTSDIR}



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