ears-bin

LOW
maintainer dvjn 0 votes scanned 2026-10-20 17:28:05.182546
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Package installs a prebuilt .deb from GitHub releases, which is normal for AUR binary packages; source is from the project's official repository, and payload is a legitimate application binary, not data or code executed remotely.

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Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 90%): Package installs a prebuilt .deb from GitHub releases, which is normal for AUR binary packages; source is from the project's official repository, and payload is a legitimate application binary, not data or code executed remotely.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: dvjn <git@dvjn.dev>
2pkgname=ears-bin
3pkgver=0.2.1
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="Voice dictation: press a hotkey, speak, and ears types what you said"
6arch=('x86_64')
7url="https://github.com/dvjn/ears"
8license=('MIT')
9depends=('webkit2gtk-4.1' 'gtk3' 'libayatana-appindicator' 'alsa-lib')
10optdepends=(
11 'pipewire-pulse: pick a microphone by name (or a PulseAudio server)'
12 'grim: screen text as context on wlroots compositors'
13 'xdg-desktop-portal: screen text as context on other desktops'
14 'ears-stt: local speech-to-text server'
15 'ears-llm: local clean-up language model server'
16)
17provides=('ears')
18conflicts=('ears')
19options=('!debug')
20install=ears-bin.install
21source=("ears_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::$url/releases/download/v$pkgver/ears_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
22 "LICENSE-$pkgver::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dvjn/ears/v$pkgver/LICENSE")
23sha256sums=('edcc671008cc2c82f64f5a74e89845d3ac643e79630045ae0c53f9e7583e7a20' '8130265ac5f616e5ea648f8f93e2f8c332f90fb95ab898fe9175367abac2daf7')
24
25package() {
26 bsdtar -xf data.tar.* -C "$pkgdir"
27 install -Dm644 "LICENSE-$pkgver" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
28}
29

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