helixnotes-bin

maintainer krishn · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official project domain helixnotes.com, which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; the source is a binary release, but from the official vendor, making supply chain risk low despite the non-standard host.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official project domain helixnotes.com, which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; the source is a binary release, but from the official vendor, making supply chain risk low despite the non-standard host.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

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=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::https://download.helixnotes.com/releases/v${pkgver}/HelixNotes_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Omansh Krishn omansh@duck.com
    
      2
    
      3_pkgname=helixnotes
    
      4pkgname=${_pkgname}-bin
    
      5pkgver=1.3.4
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc='A local, open-source Markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no telemetry. (deb version)'
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url='https://gitlab.com/ArkHost/HelixNotes'
    
      10license=('AGPL3')
    
      11depends=(
    
      12    'gtk3'
    
      13    'webkit2gtk-4.1'
    
      14    'libsoup3'
    
      15    'glib2'
    
      16    'cairo'
    
      17    'gdk-pixbuf2'
    
      18    'gcc-libs'
    
      19    'glibc'
    
      20    'libsecret'
    
      21    'libdrm'
    
      22)
    
      23provides=("${_pkgname}" "${_pkgname}=${pkgver}")
    
      24conflicts=("${_pkgname}" "helixnotes-appimage-bin")
    
      25options=(!debug)
    
      26
    
      27source=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::https://download.helixnotes.com/releases/v${pkgver}/HelixNotes_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      28sha256sums=('22220a7a5babe3437b10620d3fee97b9551b74a7f6442cfe7c02e0fa2c668aad')
    
      29
    
      30package() {
    
      31
    
      32  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      33  tar -xzf "${srcdir}/data.tar.gz"
    
      34  
    
      35  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      36  install -m755  "${srcdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}"
    
      37
    
      38
    
      39  for size in 32x32 128x128 256x256@2; do
    
      40    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}/apps"
    
      41    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}/apps/${_pkgname}.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}/apps/${_pkgname}.png"
    
      42  done
    
      43
    
      44  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      45  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/usr/share/applications/HelixNotes.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
    
      46
    
      47}
    
      48

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-07 00:22
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 
 _pkgname=helixnotes
 pkgname=${_pkgname}-bin
-pkgver=1.3.2
+pkgver=1.3.4
 pkgrel=1
-pkgdesc='A local markdown note-taking app built with Tauri, SvelteKit, and Rust (deb version)'
+pkgdesc='A local, open-source Markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no telemetry. (deb version)'
 arch=('x86_64')
-url='https://codeberg.org/ArkHost/HelixNotes'
+url='https://gitlab.com/ArkHost/HelixNotes'
 license=('AGPL3')
 depends=(
     'gtk3'
@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@
     'libdrm'
 )
 provides=("${_pkgname}" "${_pkgname}=${pkgver}")
-conflicts=("${_pkgname}")
+conflicts=("${_pkgname}" "helixnotes-appimage-bin")
 options=(!debug)
 
-source=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::${url}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/HelixNotes_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
-sha256sums=('8acabdbdf5a46d717f1400a1e7d31383c300a1c708ad707d0f9908ef674e5f4c')
+source=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::https://download.helixnotes.com/releases/v${pkgver}/HelixNotes_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
+sha256sums=('22220a7a5babe3437b10620d3fee97b9551b74a7f6442cfe7c02e0fa2c668aad')
 
 package() {
 

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 15:29:50	MEDIUM	1
2026-07-07 00:22:52	CLEAN	0
2026-07-06 00:10:58	LOW	2
2026-07-05 00:27:08	LOW	2
2026-07-04 00:27:25	LOW	2
2026-07-03 00:17:07	LOW	2
2026-07-02 00:22:12	LOW	2
2026-07-01 00:30:02	LOW	2
2026-06-30 00:15:06	LOW	2
2026-06-29 00:20:06	LOW	2
2026-06-28 16:33:07	LOW	2