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Comment by charcircuit

5 hours ago

There are subtle things like abusing how github handles forks which can make malicious PKGBUILD a matter of just changing the rev with no hint in the file itself.

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thayne  2 hours ago

Perhaps, but it would be pretty unusual to use a commit/hash id instead of a version tag, or the main development branch.

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