discord-ptb

maintainer timschumi · 22 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt tarball from Discord's own infrastructure (dl-ptb.discordapp.net), which is plausibly official despite not being on a whitelist; the source is not executed remotely, and the worst case of a swapped host would be supply-chain compromise, but the artifact is intended to be official.

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 tarball from Discord's own infrastructure (dl-ptb.discordapp.net), which is plausibly official despite not being on a whitelist; the source is not executed remotely, and the worst case of a swapped host would be supply-chain compromise, but the artifact is intended to be official.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:19 source=("https://dl-ptb.discordapp.net/apps/linux/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
  • PKGBUILD:20 "LICENSE-$pkgver.html::https://discordapp.com/terms"

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Contributor: Filipe Laíns (FFY00) <lains@archlinux.org>
2# Contributor: Morgan <morganamilo@archlinux.org>
3# Contributor: Robin Candau <antiz@archlinux.org>
4# Contributor: Christian Heusel <gromit@archlinux.org>
5# Contributor: T.J. Townsend <blakkheim@archlinux.org>
6
7pkgname=discord-ptb
8_pkgname=DiscordPTB
9pkgver=1.0.205
10pkgrel=1
11pkgdesc="All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers - public test build"
12arch=('x86_64')
13url='https://discord.com'
14license=('custom')
15options=(!debug !strip)
16optdepends=('libpulse: PulseAudio support'
17 'libappindicator-gtk3: Systray indicator support'
18 'xdg-utils: For opening URLs and files')
19source=("https://dl-ptb.discordapp.net/apps/linux/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
20 "LICENSE-$pkgver.html::https://discordapp.com/terms"
21 "OSS-LICENSES-$pkgver.html::https://discordapp.com/licenses")
22sha512sums=('a36b06c2f79291662116dc23d919a01fe8f6260b0e1aa0fb519dad88b977443f548ba9a29e6e4ff0e9b43970f4062aa880bd2482fa82ba2d8847bf790181fc12'
23 'SKIP'
24 'SKIP')
25
26# Skip license hashes as they are unstable (discord#2)
27# Since "updpkgsums"/"pkgctl version upgrade" overwrite the checksum array with
28# literal hashes, set them to SKIP with indexed assignments (pacman-contrib#119)
29# https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/discord/-/issues/2
30# https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman-contrib/-/issues/119
31sha512sums[1]='SKIP'
32sha512sums[2]='SKIP'
33
34package() {
35 depends=('libnotify' 'libxss' 'nspr' 'nss' 'gtk3')
36 install -d "$pkgdir"/opt/$pkgname
37 cp -a $_pkgname/. "$pkgdir"/opt/$pkgname
38
39 chmod 755 "$pkgdir"/opt/$pkgname/$pkgname
40
41 rm "$pkgdir"/opt/$pkgname/postinst.sh
42
43 install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/bin
44 ln -s /opt/$pkgname/$pkgname "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$pkgname
45
46 install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications
47 ln -s /opt/$pkgname/$pkgname.desktop "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/$pkgname.desktop
48
49 install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps
50 ln -s /opt/$pkgname/discord.png "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/$pkgname.png
51
52 install -Dm644 LICENSE-$pkgver.html "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE.html
53 install -Dm644 OSS-LICENSES-$pkgver.html "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/OSS-LICENSES.html
54}
55

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-30 00:17
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
pkgname=discord-ptb
_pkgname=DiscordPTB
-pkgver=1.0.204
+pkgver=1.0.205
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers - public test build"
arch=('x86_64')
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
source=("https://dl-ptb.discordapp.net/apps/linux/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
"LICENSE-$pkgver.html::https://discordapp.com/terms"
"OSS-LICENSES-$pkgver.html::https://discordapp.com/licenses")
-sha512sums=('a6751efd8df41ef5f70effafc3e67b22762f221f1a6b1b96c8464dcfccd271463190c24b6f14d72670c5d563b15de4516fe602797118152cdbc727829bbc5ca9'
+sha512sums=('a36b06c2f79291662116dc23d919a01fe8f6260b0e1aa0fb519dad88b977443f548ba9a29e6e4ff0e9b43970f4062aa880bd2482fa82ba2d8847bf790181fc12'
'SKIP'
'SKIP')

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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 23:17:02 MEDIUM 1
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 21:35:42 MEDIUM 1
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 MEDIUM 1
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

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