geanypad

maintainer yochananmarqos · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

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

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      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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