Re: GNU bug#55458 is spam pretending to be from Eric Blake

[Michael Albinus]

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:

>> GNU bug report 55458 is spam. It claims to be from Eric Blake but it's
>> evidently an imposter who's trying to get people to read files that would
>> attack their system. See:
>>
>> https://bugs.gnu.org/55458
>>
>> I retitled with "SPAM" in the title, and closed and archived it, but it'd be
>> better to remove it entirely. Could you do that?
>
> I have removed it.  Thank you for reporting it.  It is easy for admins
> to remove reports that are spam.
>
> For future reference for us admins there is a script to do this.  It
> actually moves the report into a trashcan area so that it can be
> restored in the case of an error making this relatively safe.
>
>     ./edit_bug.bash -a -r 55458
>
> This is in root's home directory.  The -r says to remove the report.
> The -a says the report has already been archived and is needed for
> reports that have been archived by time already.

For non-admin users there is also the possibility to reassign the bug to
the 'spam' pseudo-package. See for example the instructions in the Emacs
file admin/notes/bugtracker.

> Bob

Best regards, Michael.