[35275] trunk/dports
Rainer Müller
raimue at macports.org
Mon Mar 24 17:00:50 PDT 2008
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 09:05, James Berry wrote:
>
>> Yes, as Adam says, this is our standard and supported behavior, and
>> is used for many ports. I'm not sure it's documented anywhere
>> however, but Adam's explanation is correct; we support two forms of
>> obfuscation, a specific one for the macports.org case, and a more
>> general variety for any email address. The rationale is to cut down
>> on the possibility of spam to committers, though this is only one
>> leak of email addresses, and there are others that remain unfixed
>> (bug reports, irc logs, etc).
>
> The $Id$ tag at the top of every portfile. :(
Uh, you are so right. I never thought about that, but this really makes
obfuscation rather useless for committers...
Rainer
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