Re: Regarding port(s) you maintain in FreeBSD ports collection

From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 22:40:29 UTC
On Sunday,  7 November 2021 at 20:27:01 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>> On 7. Nov 2021, at 20:06, Dan Mahoney (Ports) <freebsd@gushi.org> wrote:
>>> On Nov 7, 2021, at 7:04 AM, Daniel Engberg <diizzy@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> You're receiving this mail because you have one or more ports that
>>> are affected by the change proposed in
>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32880 ...
>>
>> This caused me some headscratching (wait, is my port here but not
>> in the list?  Am I mailed because a port here is a dependency of my
>> port?)
>
>> I???ve concluded that instead I???m receiving this mail because you
>> sent it to the entire ports mailing list.  Am I wrong?
>
> At least one of the affected ports is maintained by ports@ (=unmaintained).

That makes it rather pointless to say "because you have one or more
ports".  Now *everybody* has to go through the list to find whether
they're affected or not.  It would have been better to exclude ports@
from the list.  But what I see is that really only ports@ was on the
To: list.

Greg
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