I don't see anything obvious that was wrong before, so, no need to go further. Thank you for your quick responses.

Mmmm, if you are talking about the line saying

As a side note, if you don't provide a LICENSE_FILE for a known license, the one in Templates/Licenses will be provided, this is for the case where the software says something like:

Please do document it in the porter's handbook.

Please add a comment about why it is disabled, otherwise it ends up being new magic that nobody knows why it is there.

I wonder what happens when you run make makeplist in a port with, and in a port without L10N option, do you get the share/locale files in both cases ?