franz-bin

maintainer lapsus · 40 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package installs a prebuilt binary from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a common and acceptable practice for AUR binary packages; the source is verifiable and checksummed, and no remote code execution or obfuscation is present.

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-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package installs a prebuilt binary from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a common and acceptable practice for AUR binary packages; the source is verifiable and checksummed, and no remote code execution or obfuscation is present.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

MEDIUM Recently orphaned & re-adopted orphaned_readopted

This package was orphaned and re-adopted within the last 30 days — a window where ownership transfers can introduce malicious changes.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: Yakov Till <yakov.till@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: "Amhairghin" Oscar Garcia Amor (https://ogarcia.me)
    
      3# Contributor: Utsob Roy <uroybd(at)gmail(dot)com>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=franz-bin
    
      6pkgver=5.11.0
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc='Free messaging app for services like WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and many more'
    
      9arch=('x86_64')
    
      10url='https://meetfranz.com'
    
      11license=('Apache-2.0')
    
      12depends=('gtk3' 'nss')
    
      13optdepends=('org.freedesktop.secrets: Keyring password store support')
    
      14conflicts=('franz')
    
      15options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
    
      16source=("https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/releases/download/v${pkgver//_/-}/franz_${pkgver//_/-}_amd64.deb"
    
      17        "${pkgname}.patch")
    
      18b2sums=('95c367faaea976752ec94966b9b9364a601f74d4b30a5b70748398ba42eb48fd845b47d7c267c44de6cbacda4e8606ecdcf1e4123fc3100468954ab0c1d14a55'
    
      19        '4858e42f18b33ae58da2871bf7ba654ebd49c98ebfe13631355b8b0534ae8cd5558f5f7903fbe51791cc069ed3cccdb9519561dce38d2ed98090d00c703cfb3a')
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22  # Extract package data
    
      23  bsdtar -xJf data.tar.xz
    
      24
    
      25  # Install package data
    
      26  mv "usr" "${pkgdir}"
    
      27  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib"
    
      28  mv "opt/Franz" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/franz"
    
      29  ln -s "../lib/franz/franz" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/franz"
    
      30
    
      31  # Permission fix
    
      32  chmod 644 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/franz/"*.so
    
      33
    
      34  # Fix binary path in .desktop file
    
      35  patch -d "${pkgdir}" -p1 <"${pkgname}".patch
    
      36
    
      37  # Link licenses
    
      38  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      39  ln -s "/usr/lib/franz/LICENSE.electron.txt" \
    
      40    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE.electron.txt"
    
      41  ln -s "/usr/lib/franz/LICENSES.chromium.html" \
    
      42    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSES.chromium.html"
    
      43}
    
      44

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
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 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
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2