ports/154471: remove default maintainer from b.p.m

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Wed Feb 2 22:40:06 UTC 2011


>Number:         154471
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       remove default maintainer from b.p.m
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 02 22:40:06 UTC 2011
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>Originator:     Eitan Adler
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>Description:
Right now b.p.m adds maintainer if the port does not via

MAINTAINER ?= ports

This masks real errors in ports (because the maintainer doesn't look wrong) and adds code we don't need.

There are two possibilities I propose to change this line
a) Just drop it. Ports that don't define a MAINTAINER are broken and this just masks it
b) Change to a different "global" email address (badmaintainer at freebsd.org) which may avoid breakage in some pointhat scripts but would not mask the errors (and ports with a maintainer of badmaintainer@ could be found easily.
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