pdfsizeopt-git

maintainer orphaned · 10 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package builds from the project's own GitHub repository, which is a normal AUR practice; the only concern is the SKIP'd checksum and recent maintainer change, but no malicious activity or unverifiable prebuilt binaries are 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 builds from the project's own GitHub repository, which is a normal AUR practice; the only concern is the SKIP'd checksum and recent maintainer change, but no malicious activity or unverifiable prebuilt binaries are 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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: Olivier Mehani <shtrom-aur@ssji.net>
2pkgname=pdfsizeopt-git
3pkgver=r533.dc08a10
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="PDF file size optimizer"
6arch=(any)
7url="https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt"
8license=('GPL2')
9groups=()
10depends=("python2>=2.4" "ghostscript>=8.61" "sam2p" "tif22pnm" "advancecomp")
11provides=(pdfsizeopt)
12conflicts=(pdfsizeopt-svn)
13replaces=(pdfsizeopt-svn)
14makedepends=('git')
15optdepends=(
16"ect: to optimise images [use --use-image-optimizer=ECT]"
17"jbig2enc: to manage JBIG2 parts [use --use-jbig2=true]"
18"multivalent-pdf-tools: to optimise cross reference table and object serialisation [use --use-multivalent=true]"
19"pngout: to optimise the size of PNG parts [use --use-pngout=true]"
20)
21source=("git+https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt")
22pkgver() {
23 cd "$srcdir/${pkgname%-git}"
24 printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
25}
26
27build() {
28 cd "$srcdir/${pkgname%-git}"
29 sed -i 's/\/usr\/bin\/python/\02.7/g' mksingle.py
30 ./mksingle.py
31}
32
33package() {
34 cd "$srcdir/${pkgname%-git}"
35 install -D -m 755 $srcdir/pdfsizeopt/pdfsizeopt.single $pkgdir/usr/bin/pdfsizeopt
36}
37
38md5sums=('SKIP')
39

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2026-07-20 01:12:32 MEDIUM 1
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