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Registration of new accounts to the Arch AUR reopened with hardened requirements

6 points by exploraz

by mariusor

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I was trying to find a way in which to provide the yay AUR helper some verbosity in the output, so that users are informed of unusual package events without having to fully review the PKGBUILD itself. (Something like maintainer email changing, or files being added to the install scripts, etc.)
Sadly I didn't get to finish my exploration, but this is a good hardening measure from the Archlinux team.

by imrehg

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Well, a had some new account causing havoc (posting crap on packages, requesting delete of packages...) and they were registered today. I guess I'll have to start flagging.
Also, haven't realised that it was off for almost a month (the email is from 13th July, so I guess few others have realised it either way, if it just makes its way to HN).