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charcircuityesterday at 8:29 PM1 replyview on HN

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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thayneyesterday at 11:12 PM

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