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Sorry for the unreliable builds recently. I've spoken with Futo about the generic latestversion.zip downloads and have been advised about versioned links which they don't officially publish. Hopefully that should finally resolve the issue of this package breaking when a new release is published to the same download URL breaking checksums.

Yea that is kinda problematic, and FUTO should address it, but in the mean time I've came up with this.
1. Skip all checksums as you suggested
2. Using find with regex to find Grayjay directory after unziping.
3. Because once /usr/bin/grayjay script has copied GJ to ~/.local/share, it will not update them, I added an if to check if AppVersion.json has changed.

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index 10be31d..f61ce8e 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ pkgbase = grayjay-bin
        conflicts = grayjay-git
        options = !strip
        source = Grayjay.Desktop-linux-x64.zip::https://updater.grayjay.app/Apps/Grayjay.Desktop/Grayjay.Desktop-linux-x64.zip
-       sha256sums = 314e002552a413cd3f13d8a4abd44a20bf59de7a70982d8dd0f1f26ddfbe8d03
+       sha256sums = SKIP

 pkgname = grayjay-bin
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index b8fefd9..8fca997 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ conflicts=('grayjay-git')
 options=(!strip)
 _filename="Grayjay.Desktop-linux-x64.zip"
 source=("${_filename}::https://updater.grayjay.app/Apps/Grayjay.Desktop/${_filename}")
-sha256sums=('314e002552a413cd3f13d8a4abd44a20bf59de7a70982d8dd0f1f26ddfbe8d03')
+sha256sums=('SKIP')

 prepare() {
     mkdir -p "${srcdir}/grayjay"
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ prepare() {
 }

 package() {
-    cd "${srcdir}/grayjay/Grayjay.Desktop-linux-x64-v2"
+    cd $(find "${srcdir}/grayjay" -type d -name "Grayjay.Desktop-linux-x64-v*")

     # Create necessary directories
     install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/grayjay"
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ if [ ! -d "$APP_DIR" ]; then
     chmod u+w -R "$APP_DIR"
 fi

+if [ "$(cat $APP_DIR/AppVersion.json)" != "$(cat /usr/share/grayjay/AppVersion.json)" ]; then
+    echo "User Grayjay copy AppVersion.json doesn't match system version, overwriting $APP_DIR with new version"
+    rm -rf "$APP_DIR"
+    mkdir -p "$APP_DIR"
+    cp -r /usr/share/grayjay/* "$APP_DIR/"
+    chmod u+w -R "$APP_DIR"
+fi
+
 exec sh -c "cd '$APP_DIR' && exec ./Grayjay \"\$@\"" -- "$@"
 EOF
     chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/grayjay"

The problem here with checksums is that Futo publishes each release to a generic 'latest' URL without anything to differentiate between versions. Short of mirroring the releases somewhere else with versioned file names, I'm not sure how to address this other than changing checksums to SKIP.

index b8fefd9..78c5315 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ conflicts=('grayjay-git')
 options=(!strip)
 _filename="Grayjay.Desktop-linux-x64.zip"
 source=("${_filename}::https://updater.grayjay.app/Apps/Grayjay.Desktop/${_filename}")
-sha256sums=('314e002552a413cd3f13d8a4abd44a20bf59de7a70982d8dd0f1f26ddfbe8d03')
+sha256sums=('1bfd2ec8eaa578fdbf77c037a901bc6cafaf97427edcfbf565c1e6acb4477e96')

 prepare() {
     mkdir -p "${srcdir}/grayjay"
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ prepare() {
 }

 package() {
-    cd "${srcdir}/grayjay/Grayjay.Desktop-linux-x64-v2"
+    cd "${srcdir}/grayjay/Grayjay.Desktop-linux-x64-v4"

     # Create necessary directories
     install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/grayjay"

Checksum fail

==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    Grayjay.Desktop-linux-x64.zip ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
error: failed to download sources for 'grayjay-bin-5-1': 
error: packages failed to build: grayjay-bin-5-1

At the end of line 23 the v2 should be v4, otherwise the package function fails.

After updating this package to version 5-1, the software still claims to be on version 2, both in Settings->Info within grayjay itself as well as in the console output. I think this should be due to FUTO not actually having published any new binary release since the original version 2 release (at least the sha256sum hash hasn't changed).

why isn't this package working? can you take a look and fix it?

creates 2 entries on application launcher, there's an extra .desktop file somewhere that I can't find, and also fails to launch unless it's from the terminal, please fix this

molasses2: thanks, done.

insatiable_kin: "there is no valid reason for..." 1. your use case is not everyone's use case. 2. see https://github.com/futo-org/Grayjay.Desktop/issues/167

FYI this fails to launch when you have mounted /home with noexec flag, as you should for security. there is no valid reason for executable files of installed software to live in user directory.