betterbird-bin

LOW

maintainer Posi 312 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary archive from the project's official domain (betterbird.eu), which is not on a standard whitelist but is plausibly the project's own infrastructure; the archive is checksummed, and the build process installs it without executing untrusted code, making it a normal binary package with low risk.

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Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary archive from the project's official domain (betterbird.eu), which is not on a standard whitelist but is plausibly the project's own infrastructure; the archive is checksummed, and the build process installs it without executing untrusted code, making it a normal binary package with low risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=153.1.0esr
    
      5_build=bb7-build2
    
      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=('e3413e3dc571453149c0b76f686f7eadd2f67c824e3bf6c4897baa1b7faecb6b'
    
      47            '5ebc00bff424b0badcdb60f87db1c809a2a691d3634720e11c51b42df1e523a6'
    
      48            'b11745416d2b2f8bac1ccd3dcb99411c7239b067adf9eb973903c448f8747d09')
    
      49

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-31 00:19
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -44,6 +44,6 @@
     done
 }
 sha256sums=('e3413e3dc571453149c0b76f686f7eadd2f67c824e3bf6c4897baa1b7faecb6b'
-            '60045ec0138ad4c01546df596b97016e467bec6d69c7e4e4c7bdb85e91a31bc2'
+            '5ebc00bff424b0badcdb60f87db1c809a2a691d3634720e11c51b42df1e523a6'
             'b11745416d2b2f8bac1ccd3dcb99411c7239b067adf9eb973903c448f8747d09')
 

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 11:45:21	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2