picot-bin

maintainer jinzhongjia · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package installs a prebuilt Debian binary from a GitHub release, which is a normal distribution method for upstream; the binary is not executed at build time, and the source is verifiable via checksum, making the risk low despite the host not being a standard whitelist entry.

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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 90%): The package installs a prebuilt Debian binary from a GitHub release, which is a normal distribution method for upstream; the binary is not executed at build time, and the source is verifiable via checksum, making the risk low despite the host not being a standard whitelist entry.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: jinzhongjia <mail@nvimer.org>
2
3pkgname=picot-bin
4pkgver=0.3.1
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Local Codex-style desktop GUI for the Pi coding agent"
7arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
8url="https://github.com/shixin-guo/picot"
9license=('MIT')
10depends=(
11 'cairo'
12 'dbus'
13 'gdk-pixbuf2'
14 'glib2'
15 'glibc'
16 'gcc-libs'
17 'gtk3'
18 'hicolor-icon-theme'
19 'libsoup3'
20 'pango'
21 'webkit2gtk-4.1'
22)
23# Upstream renamed the project pi-studio -> picot; this package supersedes
24# pi-studio-bin. replaces= migrates existing installs on -Syu.
25provides=('picot' 'pi-studio')
26replaces=('pi-studio-bin')
27conflicts=('picot' 'pi-studio-bin')
28options=('!strip' '!debug')
29
30_relurl="${url}/releases/download/v${pkgver}"
31
32source_x86_64=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::${_relurl}/Picot_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
33sha256sums_x86_64=('ea0db8a89884ec8ba8c43f8a50477051b61ef55ceaab9103557ad7ce9537e5a0')
34source_aarch64=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-aarch64.deb::${_relurl}/Picot_${pkgver}_arm64.deb")
35sha256sums_aarch64=('2271ebac63faddea298ac016ce47b83aaf97d8b945b0aa983d11a5646e3773ba')
36
37prepare() {
38 mkdir -p "${srcdir}/data"
39 cd "${srcdir}/data"
40 ar x "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.deb"
41 tar xzf data.tar.gz
42}
43
44package() {
45 cd "${srcdir}/data"
46
47 install -Dm755 usr/bin/picot "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/picot"
48
49 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/Picot"
50 cp -a usr/lib/Picot/. "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/Picot/"
51
52 install -Dm644 usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/picot.png \
53 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/picot.png"
54 install -Dm644 usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/picot.png \
55 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/picot.png"
56 if [[ -d usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256@2 ]]; then
57 install -Dm644 "usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256@2/apps/picot.png" \
58 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/picot.png"
59 fi
60
61 install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/picot.desktop" <<'EOF'
62[Desktop Entry]
63Type=Application
64Name=Picot
65Comment=Local Codex-style desktop GUI for the Pi coding agent
66Exec=picot
67Icon=picot
68Terminal=false
69Categories=Development;
70StartupWMClass=picot
71EOF
72
73 # Upstream declares MIT in package.json but ships no LICENSE file
74 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
75}
76

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-31 00:14
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# Maintainer: jinzhongjia <mail@nvimer.org>
pkgname=picot-bin
-pkgver=0.3.0
+pkgver=0.3.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Local Codex-style desktop GUI for the Pi coding agent"
arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
_relurl="${url}/releases/download/v${pkgver}"
source_x86_64=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::${_relurl}/Picot_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
-sha256sums_x86_64=('80ffc2658bcccb8f89d149c705cd8252865e77d25bdfa7a418e5b9bc29ac8126')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('ea0db8a89884ec8ba8c43f8a50477051b61ef55ceaab9103557ad7ce9537e5a0')
source_aarch64=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-aarch64.deb::${_relurl}/Picot_${pkgver}_arm64.deb")
-sha256sums_aarch64=('6b157758de3ff82a73c7c8eee91b4a80e50ad80cb1b23c2eb0335e54236d280e')
+sha256sums_aarch64=('2271ebac63faddea298ac016ce47b83aaf97d8b945b0aa983d11a5646e3773ba')
prepare() {
mkdir -p "${srcdir}/data"

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