simplex-desktop-fixed-bin

maintainer rudolfschmidt · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

LOW

Why flagged The package installs a prebuilt .deb from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a normal distribution method for the software; the low severity is due to the unverifiable binary nature of the release asset, but it comes from a trusted project source.

Triggered rules

LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

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

LOW AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package installs a prebuilt .deb from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a normal distribution method for the software; the low severity is due to the unverifiable binary nature of the release asset, but it comes from a trusted project source.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: Rudolf Schmidt <info@rudolfschmidt.com>
    
      2pkgname=simplex-desktop-fixed-bin
    
      3pkgver=7.0.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="The first messaging platform that has no user identifiers — desktop GUI client"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://simplex.chat"
    
      8license=('AGPL-3.0-only')
    
      9depends=(
    
      10    'alsa-lib'
    
      11    'e2fsprogs'
    
      12    'fontconfig'
    
      13    'freetype2'
    
      14    'fribidi'
    
      15    'gmp'
    
      16    'harfbuzz'
    
      17    'jack2'
    
      18    'java-runtime'
    
      19    'libdrm'
    
      20    'libglvnd'
    
      21    'libgpg-error'
    
      22    'libusb'
    
      23    'libx11'
    
      24    'libxcb'
    
      25    'libxext'
    
      26    'libxi'
    
      27    'libxrender'
    
      28    'libxtst'
    
      29    'openssl'
    
      30    'xdg-utils'
    
      31    'zlib'
    
      32)
    
      33provides=('simplex-desktop' 'simplex-desktop-bin')
    
      34conflicts=('simplex-desktop' 'simplex-desktop-bin')
    
      35options=('!debug' '!strip')
    
      36source=("simplex-desktop-${pkgver}.deb::https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/releases/download/v${pkgver}/simplex-desktop-ubuntu-24_04-${CARCH}.deb")
    
      37sha256sums=('f70f44d512d4b2446b52b1573fafc17e9cf65ddef7c9128b49ca43cf628210f2')
    
      38
    
      39package() {
    
      40    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      41    tar --zstd -xf data.tar.zst -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      42
    
      43    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      44    ln -s /opt/simplex/lib/simplex-simplex.desktop "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/simplex.desktop"
    
      45
    
      46    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      47    ln -s /opt/simplex/bin/simplex "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/simplex-desktop"
    
      48}
    
      49

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-08 00:26
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-18 00:03
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Rudolf Schmidt <info@rudolfschmidt.com>
 pkgname=simplex-desktop-fixed-bin
-pkgver=6.5.6
+pkgver=7.0.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="The first messaging platform that has no user identifiers — desktop GUI client"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 conflicts=('simplex-desktop' 'simplex-desktop-bin')
 options=('!debug' '!strip')
 source=("simplex-desktop-${pkgver}.deb::https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/releases/download/v${pkgver}/simplex-desktop-ubuntu-24_04-${CARCH}.deb")
-sha256sums=('b1ac5da25e43dffbb35cca1bd8ca5f4d67b4db4ea0cb6deaa6d405c1f29cc178')
+sha256sums=('f70f44d512d4b2446b52b1573fafc17e9cf65ddef7c9128b49ca43cf628210f2')
 
 package() {
     cd "${srcdir}"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-18 00:03:42	LOW	2
2026-08-17 00:18:29	LOW	2
2026-08-16 23:34:04	LOW	2
2026-07-08 00:26:52	CLEAN	2
2026-07-07 23:26:11	LOW	1
2026-06-25 22:23:36	CLEAN	2
2026-06-19 19:07:35	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 18:55:24	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	LOW	1