ncurses5-compat-libs

maintainer andreas_baumann · 585 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The source is downloaded from the official project's archive domain (invisible-island.net), which is legitimate and maintained by the ncurses author; the non-whitelisted host is not a security risk in this context as it hosts the project's official releases.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The source is downloaded from the official project's archive domain (invisible-island.net), which is legitimate and maintained by the ncurses author; the non-whitelisted host is not a security risk in this context as it hosts the project's official releases.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:18 source=(https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/ncurses-$pkgver.tar.gz{,.asc})

PKGBUILD

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      1# Contributor: Michał Wojdyła < micwoj9292 at gmail dot com >
    
      2# Contributor: Bartłomiej Piotrowski <bpiotrowski@archlinux.org>
    
      3# Contributor: Mateusz Gozdek <mgozdekof@gmail.com>
    
      4# Contributor: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
    
      5# Contributor: judd <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
    
      6
    
      7pkgname=ncurses5-compat-libs
    
      8_pkgname=ncurses
    
      9pkgver=6.6
    
      10pkgrel=2
    
      11pkgdesc='System V Release 4.0 curses emulation library, ABI 5'
    
      12arch=(i686 x86_64)
    
      13url='https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html'
    
      14license=(MIT)
    
      15depends=(glibc gcc-libs sh)
    
      16provides=(libtinfo5)
    
      17conflicts=(libtinfo5)
    
      18source=(https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/ncurses-$pkgver.tar.gz{,.asc})
    
      19sha256sums=('355b4cbbed880b0381a04c46617b7656e362585d52e9cf84a67e2009b749ff11'
    
      20            'SKIP')
    
      21validpgpkeys=('19882D92DDA4C400C22C0D56CC2AF4472167BE03')  # Thomas Dickey
    
      22
    
      23prepare() {
    
      24  cp -r ${_pkgname}-${pkgver}{,-no-widec}
    
      25}
    
      26
    
      27build() {
    
      28  local configure_options=(
    
      29    --prefix=/usr
    
      30    --mandir=/usr/share/man
    
      31    --with-shared
    
      32    --with-normal
    
      33    --without-debug
    
      34    --without-ada
    
      35    --disable-pc-files
    
      36    --with-cxx-binding
    
      37    --with-cxx-shared
    
      38    --with-versioned-syms
    
      39    --with-abi-version=5
    
      40  )
    
      41
    
      42  # allow building with gcc >= 15
    
      43  CFLAGS+=' -std=gnu17'
    
      44
    
      45  cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      46
    
      47  ./configure "${configure_options[@]}" --enable-widec
    
      48  make
    
      49
    
      50  cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-no-widec"
    
      51
    
      52  ./configure "${configure_options[@]}"
    
      53  make
    
      54}
    
      55
    
      56package() {
    
      57  cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      58  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install.libs
    
      59  cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-no-widec"
    
      60  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install.libs
    
      61  install -Dm644 COPYING "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      62  rm -rf "$pkgdir/usr/include/" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/pkgconfig" \
    
      63    "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/*.so "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/*.a
    
      64
    
      65  ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5"
    
      66  ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libtic.so.5"
    
      67}
    
      68

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