mektu-bin

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged Installs a prebuilt binary .deb from the project's own domain (mektu.io) with a pinned sha256 checksum; the checksum mitigates swap risk, but it is still an unverifiable closed-source prebuilt executable from a small/personal project host with no independent verification, warranting medium caution.

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:14 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.deb::https://mektu.io/downloads/mektu-linux-x86_64.deb")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 70%): Installs a prebuilt binary .deb from the project's own domain (mektu.io) with a pinned sha256 checksum; the checksum mitigates swap risk, but it is still an unverifiable closed-source prebuilt executable from a small/personal project host with no independent verification, warranting medium caution.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Ali Kaya <alikayaa@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=mektu-bin
    
      3_appname=mektu
    
      4pkgver=0.1.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Mektu — AI-powered email, task and calendar desktop client"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://mektu.io"
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10depends=('webkit2gtk-4.1' 'gtk3' 'libappindicator-gtk3')
    
      11provides=('mektu')
    
      12conflicts=('mektu')
    
      13options=(!strip !debug)
    
      14source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.deb::https://mektu.io/downloads/mektu-linux-x86_64.deb")
    
      15sha256sums=('9d081cdde174cbd9b1bf900038e604dda1d740071d9792d1b8e287c96aef8b0d')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18  # Extract the prebuilt .deb (data.tar.*) straight into pkgdir:
    
      19  # usr/bin/mektu, usr/share/applications, hicolor icons.
    
      20  bsdtar -xf "$pkgname-$pkgver.deb" -C "$srcdir"
    
      21  bsdtar -xf "$srcdir"/data.tar.* -C "$pkgdir"
    
      22}
    
      23

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