On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Xyne<xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote:
The maintainer of a package should be able to delete comments as this would make some of the more popular packages' comments easier to clean up. Instead of a trusted user needing to do this, the owner of the package could be allowed to delete any comments older that a week. That's a policy decision, but I hope we will have some way of deleting comments that refer to bugs that have been fixed.
This would prevent users from being able to flag malicious packages. If this were implemented, I would like to see a "report malicious package" link or something else. As Arch continues to grow we will end up with malicious users and I would prefer to be prepared to handle these when the time comes.
You mean you have seen comments about malicious packages and removed them? I doubt it. Malicious or useless packages, at least since mere users are not able to delete them, have *always* been reported on the mailing list or to TUs directly, or the AUR cleanup wiki page. -- Greg