ports-mgmt/portscout: Add GitHub and PyPI site handlers & MORE!
Over the past several months portscout.freebsd.org appears to have been
more frequently NOT finding updates, particularly for ports that use
CHEESESHOP (PyPI) as their MASTER_SITES.
Portscout has also never worked for ports using GitHub for distribution
files due to the following:
a) Portscout, prior to 'guessing', requests a randomly named file
from the Site and expects a 4xx (404) in response. If it doesn't
receive a 4xx response, it increments a 'lie counter' and does not
check the site again in the next run.
b) The GitHUB handlers (SUBDIR/MASTER_SITES) in bsd.sites.mk
construct a URL that ends in a a dummy query paramater (for the
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