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by chisquared 1203 days ago
> Anyone could just change username/organization and break thousands/millions of build.

GitHub redirects you to the new name in the event of a rename and you look up the old one.

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until someone claims the old name as a new org/repo
For now, hopefully
yeah. if GitHub is even real.
Well, we know GitHub is real. But we should also remember that they can change their API at anytime and basing a package manager on their priorities is not the best situation for the long term success of that package manager, unless they are owned by Microsoft