betterbird-ja-bin

LOW
maintainer Posi 3 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt Japanese localization archive from the official Betterbird domain (betterbird.eu), which is plausibly project-owned; the source is not executed remotely, and the worst case of a swapped host would be a malicious binary, but the host is specific to the project and not a generic file-sharing service.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt Japanese localization archive from the official Betterbird domain (betterbird.eu), which is plausibly project-owned; the source is not executed remotely, and the worst case of a swapped host would be a malicious binary, but the host is specific to the project and not a generic file-sharing service.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:15 "https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${_build}.ja.linux-x86_64.tar.xz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Posi<posi1981@gmail.com>
2pkgname=betterbird-ja-bin
3_pkgname=betterbird
4pkgver=153.6.0esr
5_build=bb12
6pkgrel=1
7pkgdesc="JAPANESE // 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')
12provides=("betterbird=${pkgver}")
13conflicts=('betterbird')
14source=(
15 "https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${_build}.ja.linux-x86_64.tar.xz"
16 "eu.betterbird.Betterbird.desktop"
17)
18
19package() {
20 install -d "${pkgdir}/opt"
21 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
22 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
23
24 cp -r "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}/" "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}"
25 install -m644 "${srcdir}/eu.${_pkgname}.Betterbird.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/eu.${_pkgname}.Betterbird.desktop"
26 ln -s /opt/$_pkgname/betterbird "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$_pkgname
27
28 echo "
29
30 >>>>> このパッケージに忘れずに投票してください。 ありがとう
31 >>>>> Kono pakkēji ni wasurezu ni tōhyō shite kudasai. Arigatō
32 >>>>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/betterbird-ja-bin
33
34 "
35
36 #icons
37 for i in 16 22 24 32 48 64 128 256; do
38 install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/
39 ln -s /opt/$_pkgname/chrome/icons/default/default$i.png \
40 "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/$_pkgname.png
41 done
42}
43sha256sums=('22fa8f34ce9946273fab0fab36f2ca5d8f89987781eadd30f737c272f619bdd9'
44 '5ebc00bff424b0badcdb60f87db1c809a2a691d3634720e11c51b42df1e523a6')
45
46

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-28 00:06
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
# Maintainer: Posi<posi1981@gmail.com>
pkgname=betterbird-ja-bin
_pkgname=betterbird
-pkgver=153.5.0esr
-_build=bb11
+pkgver=153.6.0esr
+_build=bb12
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="JAPANESE // Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will."
arch=('x86_64')
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
"$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/$_pkgname.png
done
}
-sha256sums=('b56c6b6f82374f3216a510eee31533c04b9a6badb3ca1f148047f7c8931e4ab0'
+sha256sums=('22fa8f34ce9946273fab0fab36f2ca5d8f89987781eadd30f737c272f619bdd9'
'5ebc00bff424b0badcdb60f87db1c809a2a691d3634720e11c51b42df1e523a6')

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-11-01 00:21:48 Low 2
2026-10-31 00:07:41 Low 2
2026-10-30 00:29:30 Low 2
2026-10-29 00:13:55 Low 2
2026-10-28 21:50:44 Medium 1
2026-10-28 00:06:54 Low 2
2026-10-27 00:23:28 Low 2
2026-10-26 00:12:40 Low 2
2026-10-25 00:20:48 Low 2
2026-10-24 00:14:55 Low 2
2026-10-23 00:02:19 Low 2
2026-10-22 00:13:10 Low 2
2026-10-21 00:12:50 Low 2
2026-10-20 00:10:31 Low 2
2026-10-19 00:03:55 Low 2
2026-10-18 00:06:55 Low 2
2026-10-17 00:21:55 Low 2
2026-10-16 00:12:47 Low 2
2026-10-15 11:11:38 Medium 1
2026-10-15 00:28:05 Low 2

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