Homebrew has outsourced its gatekeeping to Apple
Most of the casks that disappeared from Homebrew in the last couple of years didn’t go because the software was bad. They went because the author hadn’t paid Apple. That’s not how it’s phrased, anyway. The PR says the cask failed brew audit. The audit flags the binary as unsigned, or signed but not notarised, or signed by a Developer ID that doesn’t match the bundle. The deprecation policy gives the cask a sunset date. From the outside it looks like quality control. From the maintainer’s side, it’s a $99-a-year invoice from Cupertino. ...