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Re: a spammer has closed many bugs



Hi Vincent,

Vincent Lefevre, on 2025-08-08:
> 3 of my bugs got closed by a spammer (leonor.hugot@franceagrimer.fr).
> I've reopened them.
> 
> But she actually closed many other bugs, at least for packages of
> libreoffice source.

Yes, from time to time, spammers harvest -done debbugs email
addresses and this interferes with the proper operation of the
bug tracker; I agree this is mighty annoying.  At the end of
each bug entry, there is a paragraph:

>> Send a report that this bug log contains spam[1].

allowing reporting through the web interface.  I guess it is
also possible to just use the link [1] and replace the NNNNNNN
by the actual bug number for a shortcut.  I don't know what
further processing goes after that, but I thought I would
advertise this, as I believe it is a well hidden functionality.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugspam.cgi?bug=NNNNNNN

Have a nice day,  :)
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