The AUR Is Not an App Store

The Arch User Repository has a malware problem. On July 30, Arch Linux disabled package adoption in the AUR. The reason was fairly direct, there had been an influx of malicious package adoptions followed by malicious commits. People were taking over orhpaned packages and using the existing identity to push malware. Two days later, on August 1, it went further . Hi everyone, We have now disabled…