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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On March 8, 2011, Deryck Hodge wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So "people set bad links regularly" means we have the first part
> > "packaging link", regularly.  The second part "translations enabled
> > upstream" should be common if the feature we're working on is
> > successful.  In the absence of hard data, the last part, "a potemplate
> > with the same name on both sides" seems rare, but not so rare that we
> > should ignore it.  If necessary, we could query the database to find out
> > more.
> 
> Yeah, this sounds reasonable.  At least to know for sure what we're
> dealing with.  If we're not going to cause much of an issue anyway and
> the condition exists infrequently, then we could avoid creating this
> barrier until we really see the need for it.
> 
> Just my $.02.  I certainly defer to the better judgement of the group on
> this.

I'll add my $.02CAN to yours!

Launchpad doesn't really need more confusing permission.

On the other hand, what about a malicious user removing packaging link on 
Ubuntu main packages?
 
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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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