Why is ${prefix}/var/macports/home not owned by the macports user?

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> Am 08.01.2021 um 15:50 schrieb Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>:
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> On Jan 7, 2021, at 16:26, Andrew Udvare wrote:
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>> Sometimes the release tarball will come with the submodule source https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/9612#issuecomment-756376258 but this probably depends on the project.
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> If a release tarball doesn't come with everything needed to build the source (i.e. with submodules included), then it's of no use to anyone. So that would be a bug to report to whoever prepared that tarball.
> 

Unfortunately, for GitHub this bug seems to be the default: https://github.community/t/create-release-that-contains-submodule/1329. And they are apparently not really eager to fix that.