Re: Can't upload a package named "oath" to Hackage

It seems like we're extrapolating quite a bit without actual input from 
the Hackage Admins/Trustees on that one. I'd rather have Gershom's 
opinion on that topic.

Le 09/12/2021 à 02:15, Fumiaki Kinoshita a écrit :
> If typo-squatting is a thing, they should be done against existing 
> packages, not for non-existing ones... I don't think it should prevent 
> uploading an innocent package anyway.
>
> Btw there are way more confusing ones, like promise vs. promises, 
> future vs. futures...
>
> 2021年12月9日(木) 6:59 David Feuer <[email protected]>:
>
>     How are the trustees to know whether someone "deserves" to take a
>     security sensitive name? And "typos" can often be intentional when
>     two packages each deserve similar names. I think it's reasonable
>     for trustees to step in if a name is actually abused, but I don't
>     support squatting.
>
>     On Wed, Dec 8, 2021, 4:53 PM Carter Schonwald
>     <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>         Yeah. Typo squatting is or case squatting in helping
>         preventing weird security / bug issues sounds sane to me
>
>         On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jon Purdy
>         <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>             On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 6:34 AM Fumiaki Kinoshita
>             <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>                 Looking at other "reserved package names in the list,
>                 "all", "project", "test" are understandable but it's
>                 hard to think of any reason why oath should be reserved.
>
>
>             When I first saw this thread, I guessed that it was
>             reserved to prevent typosquatting for “oauth” (OAuth
>             <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth>).
>
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