nota-daw-bin

LOW

maintainer xpufx 0 votes scanned 2026-10-17 00:21:55.226236

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Why flagged

The package installs a prebuilt AppImage from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a normal distribution method; the source is verifiable and matches the project, though the AppImage itself is not rebuilt from source.

Triggered rules

Low Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package installs a prebuilt AppImage from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a normal distribution method; the source is verifiable and matches the project, though the AppImage itself is not rebuilt from source.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: xpufx <github@xpufx.com>
    
      2pkgname=nota-daw-bin
    
      3pkgver=0.55.1
    
      4_appimage_sha='e50e24c1a72aea10878dfa053bda20f4d7d9082362bd3eee8b0d95e1120f2e0b'
    
      5_license_sha='0d96a4ff68ad6d4b6f1f30f713b18d5184912ba8dd389f86aa7710db079abcb0'
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="Modern digital audio workstation (DAW) (upstream binary)"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://github.com/nota-daw/nota"
    
      10_github_url="https://github.com/nota-daw/nota"
    
      11_appimage_asset="Nota-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage"
    
      12license=('AGPL-3.0-only')
    
      13_publish_targets="aur"
    
      14provides=('nota' 'nota-daw')
    
      15conflicts=('nota' 'nota-daw')
    
      16options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      17depends=('alsa-lib' 'freetype2' 'fontconfig' 'glibc' 'gcc-libs' 'libx11' 'libxcursor' 'libxext' 'libxinerama' 'libxrandr' 'libice' 'libsm' 'openssl' 'zlib' 'icu' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
    
      18optdepends=(
    
      19	'pulseaudio: PulseAudio audio backend support'
    
      20	'pipewire-pulse: PipeWire PulseAudio audio backend support'
    
      21)
    
      22source=(
    
      23	"${_appimage_asset}::${_github_url}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/${_appimage_asset}"
    
      24	"LICENSE::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nota-daw/nota/v${pkgver}/LICENSE"
    
      25)
    
      26sha256sums=(
    
      27	"$_appimage_sha"
    
      28	"$_license_sha"
    
      29)
    
      30
    
      31prepare() {
    
      32	cd "$srcdir"
    
      33	chmod +x "Nota-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage"
    
      34	rm -rf squashfs-root
    
      35	./Nota-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract
    
      36}
    
      37
    
      38package() {
    
      39	cd "$srcdir"
    
      40
    
      41	# Install application files from extracted squashfs-root/usr/bin/ to /usr/lib/nota/
    
      42	install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nota"
    
      43	cp -a squashfs-root/usr/bin/* "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nota/"
    
      44
    
      45	# Fix directory and file permissions
    
      46	find "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nota" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
    
      47	find "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nota" -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
    
      48	chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nota/Nota.App"
    
      49	if [ -f "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nota/nota-scanworker" ]; then
    
      50		chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nota/nota-scanworker"
    
      51	fi
    
      52	if [ -f "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nota/createdump" ]; then
    
      53		chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nota/createdump"
    
      54	fi
    
      55	find "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nota" -type f -name "*.so*" -exec chmod 755 {} +
    
      56
    
      57	# Remove LTTng tracepoint provider to avoid unnecessary dependency on liblttng-ust
    
      58	rm -f "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nota/libcoreclrtraceptprovider.so"
    
      59
    
      60	# Install launcher scripts
    
      61	install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      62	cat > "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/nota" << 'EOF'
    
      63#!/bin/sh
    
      64exec /usr/lib/nota/Nota.App "$@"
    
      65EOF
    
      66	chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/nota"
    
      67	ln -s nota "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/nota-daw"
    
      68
    
      69	# Desktop entry
    
      70	install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      71	cat > "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/nota.desktop" << 'EOF'
    
      72[Desktop Entry]
    
      73Type=Application
    
      74Name=Nota
    
      75Comment=Modern digital audio workstation
    
      76Exec=/usr/bin/nota
    
      77Icon=nota
    
      78Terminal=false
    
      79Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Music;
    
      80StartupWMClass=Nota.App
    
      81EOF
    
      82
    
      83	# Application icons
    
      84	if [ -f "squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/nota.png" ]; then
    
      85		install -Dm644 "squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/nota.png" \
    
      86			"${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/nota.png"
    
      87	elif [ -f "squashfs-root/nota.png" ]; then
    
      88		install -Dm644 "squashfs-root/nota.png" \
    
      89			"${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/nota.png"
    
      90	fi
    
      91
    
      92	# Upstream license
    
      93	install -Dm644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      94}
    
      95

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