Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:35:55 GMT From: Ben Crowell <sendprcrowell04@lightandmatter.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/68337: patch so that README.html files in ports don't cause unwitting users to post to mailing lists Message-ID: <200406251635.i5PGZt11022392@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200406251640.i5PGeQTc087698@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 68337
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: patch so that README.html files in ports don't cause unwitting users to post to mailing lists
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jun 25 16:40:25 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ben Crowell
>Release: 5.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD rintintin.Belkin 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 11 04:21:45 GMT 2004 root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
Currently many README.html files for ports suggest e-mailing the maintainer, but the
mailto: link is actually to a mailing list such as ports@FreeBSD.org or gnome@FreeBSD.org.
These lists accept posts from nonsubscribers, so users are being encouraged to send an
e-mail that they don't realize is actually going to a list.
>How-To-Repeat:
An example is the file /usr/ports/print/freetype2/README.html, which has a
mailto:gnome@FreeBSD.org with no indication that it's a mailing list.
>Fix:
Here's a proposed patch. Sorry about the mangling of the tabs in the makefile -- I can't seem to fix them in the browser, and I'm unable to use send-pr directly via e-mail.
*** 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@FreeBSD.org">maintainer</a> of this port|"mailto:gnome@FreeBSD.org">gnome@FreeBSD.org mailing list</a>|' \
+ -e 's|"mailto:ports@FreeBSD.org">maintainer</a> of this port|"mailto:ports@FreeBSD.org">ports@FreeBSD.org mailing list</a>|' \
${TEMPLATES}/README.port >> $@
# The following two targets require an up-to-date INDEX in ${PORTSDIR}
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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