On March 9, 2011, Curtis Hovey wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 10:26 -0500, Francis J. Lacoste wrote: > > On the other hand, what about a malicious user removing packaging link > > on > > Ubuntu main packages? > > A malicious user may have done that and someone else just relinked it. > Removing a link will remove the display of reciprocal information about > the package and project. Both package and project will then suggest the > reciprocal link. > > We do not know if this is an issue. Users have never reported this has > happened, and there is no way to audit this. Packaging links are never > modified. They are created and destroyed. We know who created each. No > one noticed when I removed 1000 bad packaging link 13 months ago, but > they were not prominent in the UI either.
I'm more worried about the side-effect in translations of removing the packaging link in Ubuntu packages. -- Francis J. Lacoste [email protected]
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