2009/9/29 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgrif...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Chris Brannon <cmbranno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It seems that someone is sending spam via out-of-date notifications >> for packages in the official repos. >> How do I clear the out-of-date flag on my packages these days? >> I can't seem to be able to do that with the new interface. > > Yeah, this happens, and we haven't really found a good solution to > this spam problem. I guess we could ban the IP address... > > If anyone has an idea to solve the spam issue that's not super > intrusive, the code (archweb_pub) is publicly available :)
Can't we use Pierre's script to auto-check for updated packages? Most upstream authors have a sane versioning system -- so it should not be too difficult. Abhishek