To answer your question, generally yes the package maintainer is the one who maintains the package for the current version of the distro, even if upstream is unchanged. If a package is no longer compatible and no one is making it compatible, then yes it’s unmaintained and should be removed.
To answer your question, generally yes the package maintainer is the one who maintains the package for the current version of the distro, even if upstream is unchanged. If a package is no longer compatible and no one is making it compatible, then yes it’s unmaintained and should be removed.
It wasn’t removed, it was marked as orphaned, which means anyone can take over and mess with it.
If another user had said “I can take care of this long-term, gimme”, I’d had handed it over.
I wonder if that AUR admin’s orphaning spree played a role in enabling this attack.