plasticscm-client-gui

LOW

maintainer Fell 2 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads official Plastic SCM GUI binaries from the vendor's S3 bucket; while the host is non-standard, the files are checksum-verified and part of the legitimate software distribution, posing no active threat.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads official Plastic SCM GUI binaries from the vendor's S3 bucket; while the host is non-standard, the files are checksum-verified and part of the legitimate software distribution, posing no active threat.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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 "https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/${pkgver}/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-${pkgver}-linux-client-gui.tar.gz"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Fell <fell@fellr.net>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=plasticscm-client-gui
    
      4pkgver=11.0.16.10303
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Unity Version Control (formerly Plastic SCM) originally developed by Códice Software (Graphical utilities)"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://www.plasticscm.com/plastic-for-linux"
    
      9license=('LicenseRef-UnityVersionControl')
    
      10depends=('e2fsprogs' 'gcc-libs' 'glibc' 'icu' 'keyutils' 'krb5' 'lttng-ust' 'zlib' 'plasticscm-client-core')
    
      11groups=('plasticscm-complete' 'plasticscm-client-complete')
    
      12options=('!strip') # stripping seems to break the binaries
    
      13source=(
    
      14    "https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/${pkgver}/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-${pkgver}-linux-client-gui.tar.gz"
    
      15    "https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/${pkgver}/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-${pkgver}-linux-theme.tar.gz"
    
      16)
    
      17b2sums=('4e91c474310ea4456996d3f5d818845a423a5613466c5ed581fe2b18c40925be3bdcd94ef9433628dc5285018bf04330a1702447c9af240b5d88ab8f14788633'
    
      18        '01455f556a14d03b7f549f09e24651bfb1f09fe8c9bdac434199fad06dc69d43bd5f560b7056dd68f146a690de4d7ff72059a62dfd83811af03a7ad654100e02')
    
      19
    
      20prepare() {
    
      21    # these files are already provided by plasticscm-client-core
    
      22    rm client/cplusplusparser.jar
    
      23    rm client/javaparser.jar
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26package() {
    
      27    local -r plasticdir="/opt/plasticscm5"
    
      28
    
      29    # create directories
    
      30    install -d "${pkgdir}${plasticdir}/" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      31
    
      32    # copy files
    
      33    cp -r "${srcdir}/client/" "${pkgdir}${plasticdir}/"
    
      34    cp -r "${srcdir}/theme/" "${pkgdir}${plasticdir}/"
    
      35
    
      36    # set executable permissions
    
      37    chmod 775 "${pkgdir}${plasticdir}/client/lingluonx"
    
      38    chmod 775 "${pkgdir}${plasticdir}/client/linplasticx"
    
      39
    
      40    # create symlinks because some .desktop files expect icon names prefixed with "lin"
    
      41    ln -s gluon.ico "${pkgdir}${plasticdir}/theme/avalonia/icons/lingluonx.ico"
    
      42    ln -s unityvcs.ico "${pkgdir}${plasticdir}/theme/avalonia/icons/linunityvcs.ico"
    
      43
    
      44    # create symlinks
    
      45    ln -s "${plasticdir}/client/linplasticx" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      46    ln -s "${plasticdir}/client/lingluonx" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      47    ln -s "${plasticdir}/client/gtkmergetool" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      48    ln -s "${plasticdir}/client/semanticmergetool" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      49    ln -s "${plasticdir}/client/plasticx.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      50    ln -s "${plasticdir}/client/unityvcs.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      51    ln -s "${plasticdir}/client/gluonx.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      52}
    
      53

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Low	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Low	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Low	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Low	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	2