[aur-general] Removing comments from AUR

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:52:46 +0200
Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:27:43 +0000
> Laurie Clark-Michalek <bluepeppers at archlinux.us> wrote:
> 
> > 2009/6/25 Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca>:
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > 
> > That's why I said "delete any comments older that a week". From
> > what I have seen, almost all packages are checked, and I can't
> > imagine that anyone who found a malicious package wouldn't report
> > it, if not here, to the forums. In either case, it would be
> > discovered, as I doubt that if the issue has not been brought to
> > the attention of the community in the week after discovery then I
> > doubt it will be in any sensible timescale.
> 
> Sorry, I missed the "older than a week" part. That should be more than
> enough time for the package to have been reported and deleted. Ignore
> my previous reply.

IMHO malicious packages should be reported to the list anyway to be
removed ASAP.
A comment alone wouldn't do it anyway.

Regards,
Philipp