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https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi/commit/14188080e7b13ba9b3e2033c3f5a11c21dd05326

The most recent commit (committed yesterday) on the https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi repository (the "official" source repository mentioned on the website (https://getferdi.com/) is extremely suspicious.

The commit message is "Remove backdoor". There are no file changes, but there are 12 comments, 11 out of which link to random YouTube videos, and the last one is a very weird image with a caption.

All this raises a lot of suspicion, and I believe people should not update to the latest version of Ferdi (in fact, unless you are sure that your current Ferdi binary's source does not have any sort of backdoors, then just remove it).

Disowning, as I no longer use ferdi.

This is on electron 15 now: https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi/pull/2073 Maybe it's okay to just let it depend on electron, they seem to update master pretty quickly after an electron release.

@AkechiShiro: This package tracks the default develop branch, so that's the source it builds from. Are there any problems/missing features apart from the version number?

Could this package be updated to the latest 5.6.0-nightly.57, I built the package today and the version that got installed is 5.6.0-nightly.40 not the latest, this package is a git package I thought it would clone from the latest source of the git repo of Fredi, however it may be more complicated than this.

Edit 1: Fix a typo about the current version installed.

EDIT/UPDATE 1 : I have NVM (to manage multiple NPM versions), using the default npm from the system, from the npm6 package made the build pass successfully.

I've hit an error during the build, not sure if I've done something wrong, or the build is failing due to some changes upstream :

✅ Successfully packaged and added 160 recipes (0 unsuccessful recipes)
npm notice 
npm notice New minor version of npm available! 7.0.3 -> 7.17.0
npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v7.17.0
npm notice Run npm install -g npm@7.17.0 to update!
npm notice 
Need to install the following packages:
  lerna
Ok to proceed? (y) y
npm WARN deprecated uuid@3.4.0: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
lerna notice cli v4.0.0
lerna info versioning independent
lerna info bootstrap root only
npm ERR! code 2
npm ERR! path /var/cache/aura/vcs/ferdi-git/ferdi-git/src/ferdi-git/packages/ui
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c tsc
npm ERR! src/badge/ProBadge.tsx(2,23): error TS2307: Cannot find module '@meetfranz/theme' or its corresponding type declarations.
npm ERR! src/badge/index.tsx(1,23): error TS2307: Cannot find module '@meetfranz/theme' or its corresponding type declarations.
npm ERR! src/headline/index.tsx(1,23): error TS2307: Cannot find module '@meetfranz/theme' or its corresponding type declarations.
npm ERR! src/icon/index.tsx(2,23): error TS2307: Cannot find module '@meetfranz/theme' or its corresponding type declarations.
npm ERR! src/infobox/index.tsx(2,23): error TS2307: Cannot find module '@meetfranz/theme' or its corresponding type declarations.
npm ERR! src/loader/index.tsx(1,23): error TS2307: Cannot find module '@meetfranz/theme' or its corresponding type declarations.
npm ERR! src/typings/generic.ts(1,23): error TS2307: Cannot find module '@meetfranz/theme/lib' or its corresponding type declarations.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /var/cache/aura/vcs/ferdi-git/ferdi-git/src/ferdi-git-home/.npm/_logs/2021-06-11T13_04_52_787Z-debug.log
lerna ERR! npm install exited 2 in 'ferdi'
lerna ERR! npm install exited 2 in 'ferdi'
npm ERR! code 2
npm ERR! path /var/cache/aura/vcs/ferdi-git/ferdi-git/src/ferdi-git
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c lerna bootstrap

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /var/cache/aura/vcs/ferdi-git/ferdi-git/src/ferdi-git-home/.npm/_logs/2021-06-11T13_04_53_326Z-debug.log
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...
aura >>= There was a makepkg failure.

Hey, this PKGBUILD is currently failing in the stage where the MacOS permissions patch is applied. It fails application.

Hunk #1 succeeded at 35 (offset -1 lines).
patching file electron-builder.yml
Hunk #1 succeeded at 66 (offset 5 lines).
patching file package.json
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file package.json.rej
patching file src/electron/macOSPermissions.js
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/electron/macOSPermissions.js.rej
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...
:: Packages failed to build: ferdi-git-5.6.0.beta.5.r150.g0aaaaeb1-1

@abelfodil @infinitnet @deepmandal7: The package should build correctly now, let me know if you run into any other issues.

@deepmandal7: Huh, looks like npm 7 introduced some breaking changes, I've managed to find a fix for the issue you posted about, but I'm still running into some other problems. Downgrading to npm 6 (and using an older commit of this package as described here should allow you to build this package again. I'm looking into both of the problems, but I'm having no success so far and I've been a little bit short on free time for the past couple of weeks, sorry about that.