Performing substitutions during post-patch breaks tools such as mkpatches,
making it very difficult to regenerate correct patches after making changes,
and often leading to substituted string replacements being committed.
This has been a pkglint warning for several years now, and pkglint can even
fix it automatically. And it did for this commit.
Only in lang/mercury, two passes of autofixing were necessary because there
were nested variables.
INSTALLATION_DIRS, as well as all occurrences of ${PREFIX}/man with
${PREFIX}/${PKGMANDIR}.
Fixes PR 35265, although I did not use the patch provided therein.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
Extract from DESCR:
Deliver allows any user to write a shell script that processes all
incoming mail messages for that user. The system administrator may
also install scripts that process all messages.
The output of a script is a list of mail addresses, files and programs
that should receive the message. It has access to each message as it
is processed, so the action can be content dependent. The script may
also generate automatic replies, like the "vacation" program, or pass
along a modified version of the original message.