[aur-general] Possible spam account

Brett Cornwall ainola at archlinux.org
Sun May 8 23:28:25 UTC 2022


On 2022-05-07 15:06, Michael Kogan via aur-general wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>The user InstallerLegacy [1] just adopted gnome-vfs [2], added himself,
>including a contact address, to the PKGBUILD head without any further
>changes, then orphaned the package again two minutes thereafter. Since the
>account has been created just today, maintains no packages and lists
>further contact information like a website URL and contact address, I
>suspect it to be a spam account.

Not sure it's a spam account as that user did seemingly improve the 
"crafty" package [1]. Randomly putting one's name on packages is rather 
tacky, however, and I've reverted the commit.

Thanks for the notice!

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=crafty&id=7717ea48ec30537968558954783a6ac0c83d3c02
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