betterbird-nl-bin

LOW
maintainer Posi 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary from the official project domain (betterbird.eu), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; the source is a complete application archive, not an executable script or payload, and the installation is standard for a binary package.

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 binary from the official project domain (betterbird.eu), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; the source is a complete application archive, not an executable script or payload, and the installation is standard for a binary package.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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}.nl.linux-x86_64.tar.xz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Posi<posi1981@gmail.com>
2pkgname=betterbird-nl-bin
3_pkgname=betterbird
4pkgver=153.2.0esr
5_build=bb8
6pkgrel=1
7pkgdesc="DUTCH // 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}.nl.linux-x86_64.tar.xz"
16 "eu.betterbird.Betterbird"
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 >>>>> Vergeet niet te stemmen op dit pakket. BEDANKT
31 >>>>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/betterbird-nl-bin
32
33 "
34 #icons
35 for i in 16 22 24 32 48 64 128 256; do
36 install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/
37 ln -s /opt/$_pkgname/chrome/icons/default/default$i.png \
38 "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/$_pkgname.png
39 done
40}
41sha256sums=('06addef0f5284d2b5b8e52e484360771ae4f8b554eea155c62023c2c9ae0a989'
42 '5ebc00bff424b0badcdb60f87db1c809a2a691d3634720e11c51b42df1e523a6')
43
44

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-31 00:19
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
# Maintainer: Posi<posi1981@gmail.com>
pkgname=betterbird-nl-bin
_pkgname=betterbird
-pkgver=153.1.0esr
-_build=bb7-build2
+pkgver=153.2.0esr
+_build=bb8
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="DUTCH // Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will."
arch=('x86_64')
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
"$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/$_pkgname.png
done
}
-sha256sums=('c9146b562c27270490502bd24f6c8b112aa12f07d0bfa8fc7ff47142ba33be5d'
+sha256sums=('06addef0f5284d2b5b8e52e484360771ae4f8b554eea155c62023c2c9ae0a989'
'5ebc00bff424b0badcdb60f87db1c809a2a691d3634720e11c51b42df1e523a6')

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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 Medium 1
2026-08-31 00:19:57 Low 2
2026-08-30 00:04:14 Low 2

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