slack-electron

maintainer carsme · 35 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a Slack .deb from Slack's official domain (downloads.slack-edge.com), which is the project's legitimate release infrastructure; despite the static analyzer flag for a non-standard host, this is a normal and expected source for the software, and the checksums are provided and valid.

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 downloads a Slack .deb from Slack's official domain (downloads.slack-edge.com), which is the project's legitimate release infrastructure; despite the static analyzer flag for a non-standard host, this is a normal and expected source for the software, and the checksums are provided and valid.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:25 "$pkgname-$pkgver.deb::https://downloads.slack-edge.com/desktop-releases/linux/x64/$pkgver/slack-desktop-$pkgver-amd64.deb"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Carl Smedstad <carsme@archlinux.org>
    
      2# Contributor: Luis Martinez <luis dot martinez at disroot dot org>
    
      3# Contributor: Moon Sungjoon <sumoon at seoulsaram dot org>
    
      4# Contributor: Yurii Kolesnykov <root@yurikoles.com>
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=slack-electron
    
      7pkgver=4.50.140
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc="Slack Desktop (Beta) for Linux, using the system Electron package"
    
      10arch=(x86_64)
    
      11url="https://slack.com/downloads/linux"
    
      12license=(LicenseRef-SlackProprietary)
    
      13_electronver=42
    
      14depends=(
    
      15  "electron$_electronver"
    
      16  glibc
    
      17  libstdc++
    
      18  libx11
    
      19  libxkbfile
    
      20)
    
      21optdepends=('libappindicator-gtk3: for notification indicator in the status bar on GNOME')
    
      22provides=(slack-desktop)
    
      23conflicts=(slack-desktop)
    
      24source=(
    
      25  "$pkgname-$pkgver.deb::https://downloads.slack-edge.com/desktop-releases/linux/x64/$pkgver/slack-desktop-$pkgver-amd64.deb"
    
      26  "slack.sh"
    
      27)
    
      28noextract=("$pkgname-$pkgver.deb")
    
      29b2sums=(
    
      30  '37d24bee70967c9611752711c52e6d5ced7e07f460120a4117280208ddfdbdb02046d95635b7dd516f187a0e0342e0546f97e24046ec01d7e0f97aad3ac8efcf'
    
      31  'bfed1f29617c53e52a437203e06d1bd6fb6dc7057e329e92d1bb375a6b95646a7eaa5a9b4e49be22bc56f89b316279950ce7119f0970daf1ca12641a6751ae23'
    
      32)
    
      33
    
      34_archive="$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      35
    
      36prepare() {
    
      37  sed -i "s/@ELECTRON_VERSION@/$_electronver/" slack.sh
    
      38
    
      39  mkdir -p "$_archive"
    
      40  bsdtar -xf "$pkgname-$pkgver.deb" -C "$_archive"
    
      41  bsdtar -xf "$_archive/data.tar.xz" -C "$_archive"
    
      42
    
      43  cd "$_archive"
    
      44
    
      45  grep -q "^$_electronver" usr/lib/slack/version \
    
      46    || (
    
      47      echo "Electron version mismatch"
    
      48      exit 1
    
      49    )
    
      50
    
      51  # Enable slack silent mode and fix icon
    
      52  sed -ri \
    
      53    -e 's|^(Exec=.+/slack)(.+)|\1 -s\2|' \
    
      54    -e 's/^Icon=.+slack\.png/Icon=slack/' \
    
      55    usr/share/applications/slack.desktop
    
      56
    
      57  # Slack is hard-coded to disable screen sharing on Wayland - remove this
    
      58  # limitation.
    
      59  sed -i 's|,"WebRTCPipeWireCapturer"|,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"|' \
    
      60    usr/lib/slack/resources/app.asar
    
      61}
    
      62
    
      63package() {
    
      64  cd "$_archive"
    
      65
    
      66  install -vdm755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/slack/resources/"
    
      67  cp -va -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib/slack/resources/" usr/lib/slack/resources/*
    
      68
    
      69  install -vdm755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/slack/locales/"
    
      70  cp -va -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib/slack/locales/" usr/lib/slack/locales/*
    
      71
    
      72  install -vDm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib/slack" \
    
      73    usr/lib/slack/LICENSE \
    
      74    usr/lib/slack/LICENSES-linux.json \
    
      75    usr/lib/slack/resources.pak \
    
      76    usr/lib/slack/version
    
      77
    
      78  install -vDm755 "$srcdir/slack.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/slack"
    
      79
    
      80  install -vDm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications" usr/share/applications/slack.desktop
    
      81  install -vDm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps" usr/share/pixmaps/slack.png
    
      82  install -vDm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname" usr/lib/slack/LICENSE
    
      83}
    
      84

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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