I talked about the number of people who "maintain" a distribution...
And, there are a lot of people involved in Trisquel, besides the person
responsible for the software itself.
There are many libraries and programs which also have only one person
responsible for them, in its origin. And, I could never know everyone of
those same persons...
The trust is never absolute.
But, with a large number of (clearly) well-intended people involved in a
distribution, that trust can be much higher than in other situations.