fastpotify

LOW
maintainer crmne 0 votes scanned 2026-08-27 13:32:42.941682
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The package downloads prebuilt binaries from GitHub releases, which is a common but unverified practice; however, the source is from the project's official repository, and the binaries are standard for the target architecture, posing low risk.

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An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads prebuilt binaries from GitHub releases, which is a common but unverified practice; however, the source is from the project's official repository, and the binaries are standard for the target architecture, posing low risk.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: Carmine Paolino <carmine@paolino.me>
2pkgname=fastpotify
3pkgver=0.1.1
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="Fast native Spotify client with local playback and Spotify Connect"
6arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
7url="https://github.com/crmne/fastpotify"
8license=('MIT')
9install="${pkgname}.install"
10# alsa-lib and libpulse are linked directly; the rest are dlopened by winit
11# and glutin at startup, and this is a GUI-only application, so all of them
12# have to be there for it to run at all.
13depends=('alsa-lib' 'libpulse' 'libglvnd' 'libxkbcommon' 'wayland' 'libx11')
14optdepends=('libxkbcommon-x11: keyboard handling in X11 sessions'
15 'pipewire-pulse: PipeWire as the PulseAudio server')
16conflicts=('fastpotify-git')
17options=('!debug' '!strip')
18_repo="https://github.com/crmne/fastpotify"
19source_x86_64=("${_repo}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/fastpotify-v${pkgver}-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz")
20source_aarch64=("${_repo}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/fastpotify-v${pkgver}-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz")
21sha256sums_x86_64=('f9a42b7dd4aa1e44113f7aa37c350c7a871977b2c8e9eace04cb8025aad717eb')
22sha256sums_aarch64=('4af68ee405da455706bee62b88e1098f1ad73b160a65adbf84bbdcebeaa69dd1')
23
24package() {
25 local target
26 case "$CARCH" in
27 x86_64) target="x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" ;;
28 aarch64) target="aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu" ;;
29 esac
30 local dir="${srcdir}/fastpotify-v${pkgver}-${target}"
31
32 install -Dm755 "${dir}/fastpotify" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/fastpotify"
33 install -Dm644 "${dir}/LICENSE" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
34 install -Dm644 "${dir}/README.md" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/README.md"
35 install -Dm644 "${dir}/packaging/applications/fastpotify.desktop" \
36 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/fastpotify.desktop"
37 install -Dm644 "${dir}/packaging/icons/fastpotify.svg" \
38 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/fastpotify.svg"
39}
40

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