otf-symbola

maintainer alerque · 110 votes · base font-symbola · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads PDF files from a web archive snapshot of the project's official site to extract and build font files; the source is non-standard but plausibly project-owned, and the build process is transparent and safe, with no execution of untrusted code.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads PDF files from a web archive snapshot of the project's official site to extract and build font files; the source is non-standard but plausibly project-owned, and the build process is transparent and safe, with no execution of untrusted code.

2 higher static findings superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

MEDIUM External download from an untrusted host, not in source=() external_download_not_in_source

curl/wget fetches a URL on a non-allowlisted host that is not part of source=(), so it is not checksum-verified by makepkg.

PKGBUILD:20 _srcurl='https://web.archive.org/web/20240107144224/'

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:21 source=("$pkgbase-$pkgver-$pkgrel.pdf::${_srcurl}https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/UFAS121921/Symbola.pdf"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: George Rawlinson <george@rawlinson.net.nz>
    
      2# Maintainer: Caleb Maclennan <caleb@alerque.com>
    
      3# Contributor: Solomon Choina <shlomochoina@gmail.com>
    
      4# Contributor: Morten Linderud <foxboron@archlinux.org>
    
      5# Contributor: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
    
      6# Contributor: Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi <gmail.com: elena.valhalla>
    
      7# Contributor: Jesse Jaara <gmail.com: jesse.jaara>
    
      8# Contributor: bohoomil <@zoho.com>
    
      9
    
      10pkgbase=font-symbola
    
      11pkgname=('otf-symbola' 'ttf-symbola')
    
      12pkgver=14.00
    
      13pkgrel=2
    
      14pkgdesc='Font for symbol blocks of the Unicode Standard'
    
      15arch=(any)
    
      16url='https://dn-works.com/ufas/'
    
      17license=(custom)
    
      18makedepends=(fontforge
    
      19             poppler)
    
      20_srcurl='https://web.archive.org/web/20240107144224/'
    
      21source=("$pkgbase-$pkgver-$pkgrel.pdf::${_srcurl}https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/UFAS121921/Symbola.pdf"
    
      22        "License-$pkgver-$pkgrel.pdf::${_srcurl}https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/UFAS121921/License.pdf")
    
      23sha512sums=('7e48bc125df8f2f3d7bfeb849bb4216cfb762ae13f55f0d165e2947595491571cf8fb5ed3cbf06c4fe8ac3fde844d18e19d745bd25bd74297e5e0c608f810079'
    
      24            '29b7ae4fef078fbf266e0bff75bace6c146ad6bb5d7586b950eb8d29faae2aa612673a199c5a82b3807a26e7bff7d9963f0d174963b41c7ff47f25a6c5c9419d')
    
      25
    
      26prepare() {
    
      27  pdfdetach -saveall ${source[0]%::*}
    
      28}
    
      29
    
      30build() {
    
      31  fontforge -c 'open(argv[1]).generate(argv[2])' Symbola.{otf,ttf}
    
      32  pdftotext "${source[1]%::*}" LICENSE
    
      33}
    
      34
    
      35package_otf-symbola() {
    
      36  provides=('font-symbola')
    
      37  pkgdesc+=' (OTF)'
    
      38  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" Symbola.otf
    
      39  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/" LICENSE
    
      40}
    
      41
    
      42package_ttf-symbola() {
    
      43  conflicts=('ttf-symbola-ib<=13.00')
    
      44  provides=('font-symbola')
    
      45  pkgdesc+=' (TTF)'
    
      46  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" Symbola.ttf
    
      47  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/" LICENSE
    
      48}
    
      49

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	3
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	3
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	3
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	3
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	3
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	3
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	3
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	3
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	3
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	3
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	3
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	3
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	3
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	3
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	3
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	3
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	3
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	3
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	3
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	3