audacity-bin

MEDIUM
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Downloads a prebuilt AppImage from GitHub Releases without checksum verification (SKIP), posing a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised.

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Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

Medium AI review of an ambiguous pattern llm_review

The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed it and judged it MEDIUM (confidence 90%): Downloads a prebuilt AppImage from GitHub Releases without checksum verification (SKIP), posing a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: Dylan Turner dylantdmt@gmail.com
2pkgname=audacity-bin
3pkgver=3.1.2
4pkgrel=3
5epoch=
6pkgdesc="Binary from GitHub Releases for the audio recording and processing software, Audacity, since Arch binary version is on 1.2 (via old audacity site) and audacity-git requires a lengthy building from source"
7arch=('x86_64')
8source=('https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/download/Audacity-3.1.2/audacity-linux-3.1.2-x86_64.AppImage')
9license=('GPL2')
10makedepends=('wget')
11md5sums=('SKIP')
12
13package() {
14 echo "Moving audacity binary."
15 mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin/"
16 chmod +x audacity-linux-$pkgver-x86_64.AppImage
17 mv audacity-linux-$pkgver-x86_64.AppImage "$pkgdir/usr/bin/audacity"
18}
19
20

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