I know where you’re coming from when you say they are different. But I disagree on that because at the end of the day you’re still trusting other people would not act maliciously or get their account compromised. The selection process doesn’t make it any more special as demonstrated by xz in my example.
Anyone can be an AUR submitter and maintainer. Act in good faith and never become an Arch maintainer. Someone can be an Arch maintainer and be good for a few years then something happened and their account got hacked or bad blood made them act rashly.
That’s precisely what I mean when I equate AUR maintainer to the distro maintainer. To the package management system, they are both trusted. Not in the sense of how special they are or how strongly you can trust one but not the other.
No, an aur maintainer is not the same a distro maintainer.
But I do agree it would be good to atleast stop and evaluate when the maintainer changes or a package looses the maintainer at a minimum.
I know where you’re coming from when you say they are different. But I disagree on that because at the end of the day you’re still trusting other people would not act maliciously or get their account compromised. The selection process doesn’t make it any more special as demonstrated by xz in my example.
Anyone can be an AUR submitter and maintainer. Act in good faith and never become an Arch maintainer. Someone can be an Arch maintainer and be good for a few years then something happened and their account got hacked or bad blood made them act rashly.
That’s precisely what I mean when I equate AUR maintainer to the distro maintainer. To the package management system, they are both trusted. Not in the sense of how special they are or how strongly you can trust one but not the other.