[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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