glyph-ocr-bin

MEDIUM
maintainer sid-lakhani 0 votes scanned 2026-11-03 10:04:25.157601
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The package installs a precompiled binary from a GitHub release without verifiable checksums (sha256sums='SKIP'), creating a supply-chain risk if the source were tampered with.

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

Medium AI review of an ambiguous pattern llm_review

The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed it and judged it MEDIUM (confidence 90%): The package installs a precompiled binary from a GitHub release without verifiable checksums (sha256sums='SKIP'), creating a supply-chain risk if the source were tampered with.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: Siddhesh Lakhani <lakhani.siddhesh@gmail.com>
2pkgname=glyph-ocr-bin
3_pkgname=glyph
4pkgver=0.1.1
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Blazing-fast, minimal Wayland screen OCR & text sniper (precompiled binary)"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://github.com/sid-lakhani/glyph"
9license=('MIT')
10depends=('slurp' 'grim' 'wl-clipboard')
11optdepends=(
12 'tesseract: Full OCR text recognition'
13 'tesseract-data-eng: English OCR language training dataset'
14)
15provides=('glyph' 'glyph-ocr')
16conflicts=('glyph' 'glyph-ocr')
17source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::$url/releases/download/v$pkgver/glyph-v$pkgver-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz")
18sha256sums=('SKIP')
19
20package() {
21 cd "glyph-v$pkgver-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
22 install -Dm755 "$_pkgname" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$_pkgname"
23 if [ -f LICENSE ]; then
24 install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
25 fi
26}
27
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