[aur-general] flood of package adoption emails

Eli Schwartz eschwartz at archlinux.org
Fri Oct 26 14:21:46 UTC 2018


On 10/26/18 9:09 AM, Robin Broda via aur-general wrote:
> On 10/26/18 10:36 AM, Johannes Wienke wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> yesterday I received about 10 email notifications that my package
>> pass-git-helper-git was adopted by some random user, differing in each
>> email. Yet, the web interface shows myself as the maintainer and I never
>> opened the package for adoption. Does anyone know what is going on here?
>> I can provide such an email for debugging purposes if necessary.
>>
>> Johannes
>>
> 
> There's (was?) a bug that caused these wrong mails to be generated,
> it has supposedly been fixed though apparently the fix doesn't work either

The bug is that
https://git.archlinux.org/aurweb.git/commit/?id=b702e5c0e7f13103fc764b7e5613f78f3e7acd30
only fixed things for the ssh interface, which, well, in retrospect does
not help for the web notifications.

Now tracked as https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60601 and hopefully fixed
for good.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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