Question about maintainers

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:01:31PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Thursday, July 28, 2005 00:53:04 +0200 Björn König 
> <bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> >Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >
> >>If a port lists the maintainer (in the Makefile) as "fred", does that
> >>mean fred at freebsd.org?
> >
> >I can't find a port with incomplete information about its maintainer. Use
> >'make maintainer' to determine the e-mail address of the responsible
> >maintainer. Look for the variable MAINTAINER in Makefile.
> >
> x11-toolkits/iwidgets
> 
> make maintainer
> ports at FreeBSD.org
> 
> head Makefile
> # New ports collection makefile for:    itk
> # Date created:         Aug 17 1996
> # Whom:                 chuckr
> 
> So, does this mean that chuckr no longer maintains the port?

Yes.  The header is mostly useless trash listing information CVS holds
just fine.

-- Brooks

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