brother-hl6180dw-lpr-bin

LOW
maintainer ViBoSchu 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt Brother LPR driver .deb from Brother's official download domain; while the host is not universally whitelisted, it is a legitimate vendor domain, and the binary is part of standard printer driver distribution, not an arbitrary remote executable.

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 Brother LPR driver .deb from Brother's official download domain; while the host is not universally whitelisted, it is a legitimate vendor domain, and the binary is part of standard printer driver distribution, not an arbitrary remote executable.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:26 "${_deb}::https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006041/${_deb}"
  • PKGBUILD:27 'LICENSE.html::https://support.brother.com/g/s/agreement/English_lpr/agree.html'

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Vincent Schult <viboschu@gmail.com>
2
3pkgname=brother-hl6180dw-lpr-bin
4pkgver=3.0.0_1
5pkgrel=2
6pkgdesc='LPR driver for Brother HL-6180DW printer'
7arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
8url='https://support.brother.com/g/b/producttop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl6180dw_all'
9license=('LicenseRef-Brother-EULA' 'GPL-2.0-or-later')
10depends=(
11 ghostscript
12 sh
13)
14depends_i686=(
15 glibc
16)
17depends_x86_64=(
18 lib32-glibc
19)
20
21options=('!strip' '!debug' '!emptydirs')
22
23_deb="hl6180dwlpr-${pkgver/_/-}.i386.deb"
24
25source=(
26 "${_deb}::https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006041/${_deb}"
27 'LICENSE.html::https://support.brother.com/g/s/agreement/English_lpr/agree.html'
28)
29noextract=(
30 "${_deb}"
31)
32sha256sums=('3b9db34d70b8199c17a56df746da1431ee7bbac9df299cfd6ed28b78350c6769'
33 '194f2a3b820f6533e7abbce7fdb727a1434a6e07f1851be696e40771e7a884ea')
34
35prepare(){
36 cd "${srcdir}"
37 rm -rf deb-root
38 mkdir -p deb-root
39 bsdtar -xf "${_deb}" -C deb-root
40}
41
42package(){
43 local data_tar=("${srcdir}/deb-root"/data.tar.*)
44
45 bsdtar -xf "${data_tar[0]}" -C "${pkgdir}"
46
47 local vendor="${pkgdir}/opt/brother/Printers/HL6180DW"
48
49 sed -i 's|GHOST_SCRIPT=`which gs`|GHOST_SCRIPT=/usr/bin/gs|' "${vendor}/lpd/psconvert2"
50
51 rm -f "${vendor}/inf/braddprinter" "${vendor}/inf/setupPrintcap" "${vendor}/lpd/brprintconflsr3"
52
53 rm -rf "${pkgdir}/var/spool/lpd" "${pkgdir}/etc/opt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc"
54
55 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE.html" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE.html"
56}
57

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