deepseek-harness-desktop-bin

MEDIUM
maintainer czyt 0 votes scanned 2026-10-06 00:13:36.889724
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The package installs a prebuilt .deb from a GitHub release by a contributor, not the official project; the binary is unverifiable and could be silently swapped, posing a supply-chain risk despite plausible project association.

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The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed it and judged it MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The package installs a prebuilt .deb from a GitHub release by a contributor, not the official project; the binary is unverifiable and could be silently swapped, posing a supply-chain risk despite plausible project association.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: czyt <czytcn@gmail.com>
2# Contributor: ZacharyZhang-NY <ZacharyZhang-NY@users.noreply.github.com>
3# Repackages the Desktop .deb built by `pnpm run package:desktop:linux:x64`.
4
5pkgname=deepseek-harness-desktop-bin
6_pkgver=0.2.0-rc.2
7pkgver=${_pkgver//-/}
8pkgrel=1
9pkgdesc='Desktop shell for the DeepSeek Harness agent runtime'
10arch=('x86_64')
11url='https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness'
12license=('MIT')
13depends=('gtk3' 'nss' 'alsa-lib' 'libxss' 'libxtst' 'libnotify' 'libsecret' 'xdg-utils' 'at-spi2-core' 'util-linux-libs')
14optdepends=('libayatana-appindicator: system tray icon support')
15provides=('deepseek-harness-desktop')
16conflicts=('deepseek-harness-desktop')
17options=('!strip' '!debug')
18_deb="deepseek-harness-${_pkgver}-linux-amd64.deb"
19source=("${_deb}::https://github.com/ZacharyZhang-NY/deepseek-harness/releases/download/desktop-v${_pkgver}/${_deb}")
20noextract=("${_deb}")
21sha256sums=('defc5e533be640159c9d83b8059f1b6ed23178cd6253f6d5755d714f5099d4fa')
22
23package() {
24 bsdtar -xOf "${_deb}" 'data.tar.*' | bsdtar -xf - -C "${pkgdir}"
25
26 # The .deb creates these in its postinst script, which pacman does not run.
27 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
28 ln -s '/opt/DeepSeek Harness/deepseek-harness' "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/deepseek-harness"
29 chmod 4755 "${pkgdir}/opt/DeepSeek Harness/chrome-sandbox"
30 install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/DeepSeek Harness/LICENSE.electron.txt" \
31 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE.electron.txt"
32}
33

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