To make things easier in the future, I'd like to have a variable SEND_PATCHES_TO in the package Makefiles, so that the patch authors That sounds sensible, following HOMEPAGE. It might also make sense to have a machine-parseable format for recording upstream tracking status in patch files, or to record that it is a pkgsrc change (e.g., examples/conf file installation). Then pkglint could warn when there isn't a recorded status for a patch. The hard part is probably that some upstreams aren't really interested in taking patches to fix problems from pkgsrc, or are overwhelmed. But we might as well do our part and try to reduce where we can.