geanypad

MEDIUM
maintainer yochananmarqos 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from packages.teejeetech.com, which is the developer's own package hosting server (teejeetech.com is the upstream author's personal site, same domain as the url= field). This is not a well-known forge or official distribution mirror, but it is the upstream author's own infrastructure. The .deb is architecture-independent ('any') and described as configuration files for Geany, suggesting it may be mostly data/config rather than compiled binaries. However, it is still a prebuilt binary package from a personal host with no reproducibility guarantee, and the sha256sum only protects against accidental corruption, not a compromised host silently replacing the file. The symlink creation (ln -svf /usr/bin/geany) and bsdtar extraction are standard. The medium rating is borderline but defensible: the host is the upstream author's own server (reducing but not eliminating risk), the package appears to be config/data files, and the sha256sum provides integrity checking. The main concern is that packages.teejeetech.com could be compromised or the file silently replaced without a new checksum being published.

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:18 source=("https://packages.teejeetech.com/public/deb/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_all.deb")
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from packages.teejeetech.com, which is the developer's own package hosting server (teejeetech.com is the upstream author's personal site, same domain as the url= field). This is not a well-known forge or official distribution mirror, but it is the upstream author's own infrastructure. The .deb is architecture-independent ('any') and described as configuration files for Geany, suggesting it may be mostly data/config rather than compiled binaries. However, it is still a prebuilt binary package from a personal host with no reproducibility guarantee, and the sha256sum only protects against accidental corruption, not a compromised host silently replacing the file. The symlink creation (ln -svf /usr/bin/geany) and bsdtar extraction are standard. The medium rating is borderline but defensible: the host is the upstream author's own server (reducing but not eliminating risk), the package appears to be config/data files, and the sha256sum provides integrity checking. The main concern is that packages.teejeetech.com could be compromised or the file silently replaced without a new checksum being published.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Mark Wagie <mark dot wagie at proton dot me>
2pkgname=geanypad
3pkgver=25.07
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="Configuration files for using Geany as a simple text editor"
6arch=('any')
7url="https://teejeetech.com//tags/geany"
8license=('GPL-2.0-or-later')
9depends=(
10 'geany'
11 'geany-plugins'
12 'rsync'
13)
14optdepends=(
15 'ttf-firacode: default editor font'
16 'ttf-ubuntu-font-family: default tagbar & msgwin font'
17)
18source=("https://packages.teejeetech.com/public/deb/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_all.deb")
19sha256sums=('bd3158e477ce5d69bde48a3a59e1ed14e3ed2529cf863ca0840104f5a07d5f2f')
20
21package() {
22 bsdtar -xvf data.tar.zst -C "$pkgdir/"
23
24 ln -svf /usr/bin/geany "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname-bin"
25
26 # Only install color schemes not already included with geany
27 for color in $(ls /usr/share/geany/colorschemes/); do
28 rm -rfv "$pkgdir/usr/share/geany/colorschemes/${color}"
29 done
30}
31

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