After repeatedly suffering issues with scam apps making it onto the Snap Store, Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions.
  • progandy@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    At least this prevents impersonation of well-known publishers or their software. Maybe all changes to metadata like the description should require a manual review even for established packages.

    • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 months ago

      At least this prevents impersonation of well-known publishers or their software

      how?

      • progandy@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        That depends on the depth of the review, e.g. verifying the submitter is a member of the project, the software name does not conflict with a well known name,…