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[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

'Bring maintained by their dev' sounds kind of redundant. As long as you are not close with them that sounds like a bad take

[–] starblursd@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

As in the official GitHub or whatever repo they're using lists their aur package as an install message. So I'm not just downloading a potential clone/fake package with a similar name that could've been orphaned and taken over in the recent aur malware campaigns

[–] xilophor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

tbh I do feel like it's somewhat relevant in this case since the packages that were compromised on the AUR were due to the AUR's package transfer ability for unmaintained packages

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 21 hours ago

But you still will not be notified when this changes?

Admittedly the dev maintaining the aur sounds better than random person...