betterbird-bin

maintainer Posi · 302 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The source is a prebuilt binary archive from the official project's own domain (betterbird.eu), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; the package installs only the project's official release, with no obfuscated code, remote execution, or dependency confusion.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The source is a prebuilt binary archive from the official project's own domain (betterbird.eu), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; the package installs only the project's official release, with no obfuscated code, remote execution, or dependency confusion.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

MEDIUM source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:16 "https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${_build}.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Posi<posi1981@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=betterbird-bin
    
      3_pkgname=betterbird
    
      4pkgver=140.13.0esr
    
      5_build=bb25
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="EN-US // Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will."
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://www.betterbird.eu/index.html"
    
      10license=('MPL2')
    
      11depends=('dbus-glib' 'hunspell')
    
      12optdepends=('hunspell-en_US')
    
      13provides=("betterbird=${pkgver}")
    
      14conflicts=()
    
      15source=(
    
      16    "https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${_build}.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz"
    
      17    "eu.betterbird.Betterbird.desktop"
    
      18    "vendor-prefs.js"
    
      19)
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22    install -d "${pkgdir}/opt"
    
      23    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      24    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      25
    
      26    cp -r "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}/" "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}"
    
      27    install -m644 "${srcdir}/eu.${_pkgname}.Betterbird.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/eu.${_pkgname}.Betterbird.desktop"
    
      28    install -m644 "${srcdir}/vendor-prefs.js" -t "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/defaults/pref"
    
      29    ln -s /opt/$_pkgname/betterbird "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$_pkgname
    
      30    ln -s /usr/share/hunspell "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/dictionaries"
    
      31
    
      32    echo     "
    
      33
    
      34	  >>>>>    Please don't forget to cast a vote for this package. THANKS
    
      35	  >>>>>    https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/betterbird-bin
    
      36
    
      37	  "
    
      38
    
      39    #icons
    
      40    for i in 16 22 24 32 48 64 128 256; do
    
      41        install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/
    
      42        ln -s /opt/$_pkgname/chrome/icons/default/default$i.png \
    
      43            "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/$_pkgname.png
    
      44    done
    
      45}
    
      46sha256sums=('d346c0c6c4f8dcde204f97f2d780d685530b9163d864bccd5c149456394ba1c0'
    
      47            '60045ec0138ad4c01546df596b97016e467bec6d69c7e4e4c7bdb85e91a31bc2'
    
      48            'b11745416d2b2f8bac1ccd3dcb99411c7239b067adf9eb973903c448f8747d09')
    
      49

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-23 00:14
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Maintainer: Posi<posi1981@gmail.com>
 pkgname=betterbird-bin
 _pkgname=betterbird
-pkgver=140.12.0esr
-_build=bb24
+pkgver=140.13.0esr
+_build=bb25
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="EN-US // Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will."
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
             "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/$_pkgname.png
     done
 }
-sha256sums=('0a125624a4bbcbc371166541b59b43fb245ce63331a341cdec069699497b46e0'
+sha256sums=('d346c0c6c4f8dcde204f97f2d780d685530b9163d864bccd5c149456394ba1c0'
             '60045ec0138ad4c01546df596b97016e467bec6d69c7e4e4c7bdb85e91a31bc2'
             'b11745416d2b2f8bac1ccd3dcb99411c7239b067adf9eb973903c448f8747d09')
 

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 19:25:44	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2