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Date:      Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:05:07 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about maintainers
Message-ID:  <20050727230507.GC7618@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <66A226C3557B48ED535E3FED@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:01:31PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Thursday, July 28, 2005 00:53:04 +0200 Bj=F6rn K=F6nig=20
> <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>=20
> >Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >
> >>If a port lists the maintainer (in the Makefile) as "fred", does that
> >>mean fred@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
>=20
> make maintainer
> ports@FreeBSD.org
>=20
> head Makefile
> # New ports collection makefile for:    itk
> # Date created:         Aug 17 1996
> # Whom:                 chuckr
>=20
> 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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