pidgin-broadcast

LOW
maintainer ConnorBehan 19 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The source is a Mercurial clone from a plausible project-owned host (imfreedom.org), building a plugin from its own source; the non-whitelisted host is not inherently risky as it hosts the project's development, and the build process is transparent and self-contained.

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 source is a Mercurial clone from a plausible project-owned host (imfreedom.org), building a plugin from its own source; the non-whitelisted host is not inherently risky as it hosts the project's development, and the build process is transparent and self-contained.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:14 source=('hg+https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/purple-plugin-pack/')

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Contributor: Connor Behan <connor.behan@gmail.com>
2
3pkgname=pidgin-broadcast
4pkgver=586.190c64ca83ba
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="The Pidgin plugin allowing massive spamming"
7arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
8url="https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/purple-plugin-pack/"
9license=('GPL2')
10depends=('pidgin')
11makedepends=('perl-xml-parser' 'mercurial')
12#http://downloads.guifications.org/plugins/Plugin%20Pack%20Archive/purple-plugin_pack-$pkgver.tar.bz2
13#https://bitbucket.org/rekkanoryo/purple-plugin-pack/get/pp_2_2_0.tar.bz2
14source=('hg+https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/purple-plugin-pack/')
15
16build() {
17 cd "$srcdir"/purple-plugin-pack
18 hg checkout 190c64ca83ba
19 sed -i -e 's/AM_CONFIG_HEADER/AC_CONFIG_HEADERS/' configure.ac
20
21 # enables broadcast
22 mv broadcast/.abusive broadcast/.build
23 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
24 # seems to not work if we don't run configure twice
25 ./configure --prefix=/usr
26 make
27}
28
29package() {
30 cd "$srcdir"/purple-plugin-pack
31
32 install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/purple-2
33 install -m755 broadcast/.libs/broadcast.so "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/purple-2
34}
35
36md5sums=('SKIP')
37

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