Comment by mcv
2 days ago
It's definitely a sign that popular packages should be moved from AUR to the official repository. I've got some stuff from AUR simply because it's something I need and that's where it is, and I never really verify it's safe; I just trust it blindly. Clearly a bad idea. I guess I should learn to avoid AUR and when I do use something from it, we more aware it's an exception and I need to check it more thoroughly. That's something I normally only do only for stuff that's neither from AUR nor the official repo.
How much work is created (and for who) when a package is moved to the official repository?
A package maintainer has to be interested and willing to support it. Sometimes packages get dropped from the official repositories into AUR when the maintainer loses interest, and noone else wants to pick up the slack.