clickup

maintainer alhirzel · 16 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from desktop.clickup.com, a non-whitelisted host, which is an unverifiable executable and represents a supply-chain risk if the domain were compromised.

Triggered rules

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:27 source=("${_filename}::https://desktop.clickup.com/linux"
  • PKGBUILD:28 "terms.html::https://clickup.com/terms")
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 90%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from desktop.clickup.com, a non-whitelisted host, which is an unverifiable executable and represents a supply-chain risk if the domain were compromised.

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Alex Hirzel <alex at hirzel period us>
2# Contributor: Maarten de Boer <maarten@cloudstek.nl>
3# Contributor: Yakumo Saki <yakumo at ziomatrix dot org>
4# Contributor: Xuanwo <xuanwo@archlinucn.org>
5pkgname=clickup
6pkgver=3.5.230
7pkgrel=2
8pkgdesc="Desktop app for clickup.com"
9arch=('x86_64')
10url="https://clickup.com"
11license=('CustomLicense')
12depends=(
13 'alsa-lib'
14 'dbus-glib'
15 'gtk3'
16 'libdbusmenu-gtk3'
17 'libindicator-gtk3'
18 'libsecret'
19 'libxkbfile'
20 'nss'
21)
22makedepends=('sed')
23options=('!strip')
24
25_filename="$pkgname-desktop-$pkgver-x86_64.AppImage"
26
27source=("${_filename}::https://desktop.clickup.com/linux"
28 "terms.html::https://clickup.com/terms")
29
30sha256sums=('f5de1dffd14fd79f231c913ac510926b12fa90fc582cd69de7550d97b455942b'
31 'SKIP')
32
33prepare() {
34 rm -rf squashfs-root
35 chmod +x $_filename
36 ./$_filename --appimage-extract
37
38 # Fix directory permissions (read + execute)
39 find squashfs-root -type d -exec chmod a+rx {} \;
40}
41
42package() {
43 cd "${srcdir}/squashfs-root"
44
45 # Symlink to /usr/bin (binary renamed to ClickUp below; see rename note)
46 install -dm0755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
47 ln -s /opt/clickup/ClickUp "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/clickup"
48
49 # Desktop entry and icons
50 install -Dm0644 desktop.desktop -T "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/ClickUp.desktop"
51 sed -i \
52 -e "s|^Exec=.\+|Exec=/usr/bin/clickup %U|" \
53 -e "s|^Icon=.\+|Icon=ClickUp|" \
54 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/ClickUp.desktop"
55
56 # Terms and licenses
57 install -Dm0644 "${srcdir}/terms.html" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"
58 install -Dm0644 LICENSE.electron.txt -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"
59 install -Dm0644 LICENSES.chromium.html -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"
60
61 # Icons (list sizes dynamically since upstream may drop some sizes)
62 for dir in usr/share/icons/hicolor/*/; do
63 size="$(basename "${dir}")"
64 [ -f "usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}/apps/desktop.png" ] || continue
65 install -Dm0644 "usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}/apps/desktop.png" -T "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}/apps/ClickUp.png"
66 done
67
68 # AppDir contents
69 cd "${srcdir}"
70 install -dm0755 "${pkgdir}/opt"
71 mv squashfs-root "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup"
72 chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup"
73 chmod a+rX "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup/"
74
75 # Rename binary so the Wayland app_id is "ClickUp", not the generic "desktop"
76 mv "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup/desktop" "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup/ClickUp"
77
78 # Clean up files
79 rm -r "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup/usr/share/"
80 rm "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup/AppRun" "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup/desktop.desktop"
81 rm "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup/desktop.png" "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup/.DirIcon"
82 rm "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup/LICENSE.electron.txt" "${pkgdir}/opt/clickup/LICENSES.chromium.html"
83}
84

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