playdate-mirror

maintainer zekesonxx · 2 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official vendor's CDN (panic.com), which is a standard practice for proprietary software; the host is not whitelisted but is plausibly official, and the checksum is verified, making this a low-risk, normal AUR package.

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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 vendor's CDN (panic.com), which is a standard practice for proprietary software; the host is not whitelisted but is plausibly official, and the checksum is verified, making this a low-risk, normal AUR package.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:41 "https://download-cdn.panic.com/mirror/Linux/Mirror-${pkgver}.x86_64.deb"

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Zoey Mertes (zmertes at zmertes dot net)
2# shellcheck shell=bash disable=SC2034,SC2154
3
4# release 1.4.0 notes
5# * yay updated webkit2gtk, thanks for responding to my email panic <3
6# * panic keeps changing the deb name capitalization
7# release 1.2.0 notes
8# * fresh binary and gamecontrollerdb.txt
9# release 1.1.0 notes
10# * yay finally a proper packaging, no more nabbing it out of the macos version
11# * yay svg icon!
12# * for some reason they think their app binary being `mirror` is okay, we're moving it back to `PlaydateMirror`
13# * the /usr/share/doc/mirror/README.md contains nothing of value, so we don't package it
14# * they put the udev rule in /etc instead of /usr/lib, so we move it to the right spot
15# * though, their udev rule is wayyyy too broad, so we're using our own
16# * the app always tries to read gamecontrollerdb.txt from /usr/share/mirror/gamecontrollerdb.txt, so we're stuck putting the file there
17# (sorta felt like a wrapper env var script for that might be overkill)
18
19# side note: are the playdate devs reading my pkgbuilds? because they did nearly every change I did in my original pkgbuild
20# if so, can you make the binary named PlaydateMirror from the beginning pretty please? thanks <3
21
22pkgname=playdate-mirror
23pkgver=1.4.0
24pkgrel=1
25pkgdesc='Screen viewer and controller for the Playdate console'
26arch=('x86_64')
27url='https://play.date/mirror/'
28license=('custom:proprietary')
29depends=(
30 'gtk3'
31 'webkit2gtk-4.1'
32)
33makedepends=()
34optdepends=()
35options=()
36
37source=(
38 # Panic is inconsistent about the package filename, sometimes it's Mirror sometimes it's mirror
39 # With 1.3.0 they changed it after release from mirror to Mirror
40 # if in doubt check the file listing here: https://download-cdn.panic.com/mirror/Linux/
41 "https://download-cdn.panic.com/mirror/Linux/Mirror-${pkgver}.x86_64.deb"
42 "50-playdate-mirror.rules"
43)
44
45sha512sums=('098630f1cf11d69274eb653c536afeabc4b649a6c5ffa6e41665d8b763cd4c5b10dbbff49ee086038e27c114d4b02e3c192006ab99ef64aa61d3269fc01eea43'
46 '84d348266722753a81bdf95e17917f4c4665c484fdb3ac258b0f46d5e3e92c62aff0df91b78c0e1d43ace9f2e15f3a9a6a24726a37302ddbf40499f5ca60864c')
47
48build() {
49 echo >&2 "Extracting the deb"
50 cd "${srcdir}" || exit 2
51 tar xvf "${srcdir}/data.tar.zst"
52
53 echo >&2 "Patching the desktop file"
54 sed -i -e 's|/usr/bin/mirror|/usr/bin/PlaydateMirror|' \
55 -e 's/Name=Mirror/Name=Playdate Mirror/' \
56 ./usr/share/applications/date.play.mirror.desktop
57}
58
59package() {
60 echo >&2 'Packaging the mirror binary'
61 install -D -m 755 "${srcdir}/usr/bin/mirror" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/PlaydateMirror"
62
63 echo >&2 'Packaging the mirror assets'
64 mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/"
65 cp -vr "${srcdir}/usr/share/mirror" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/mirror"
66
67 echo >&2 'Packaging the license'
68 install -D -m 644 "${srcdir}/usr/share/doc/mirror/LICENSE.md" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/playdate-mirror/LICENSE.md"
69
70 echo >&2 'Packaging the icon svg'
71 install -D -m 644 -T \
72 "${srcdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/date.play.mirror.svg" \
73 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/date.play.mirror.svg"
74
75 echo >&2 'Packaging the udev rule'
76 install -D -m 644 -T \
77 "${srcdir}/50-playdate-mirror.rules" \
78 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-playdate-mirror.rules"
79
80 echo >&2 'Packaging the desktop file'
81 install -D -m 755 -T \
82 "${srcdir}/usr/share/applications/date.play.mirror.desktop" \
83 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop"
84
85}
86
87

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-06-20 00:18
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
# Panic is inconsistent about the package filename, sometimes it's Mirror sometimes it's mirror
# With 1.3.0 they changed it after release from mirror to Mirror
# if in doubt check the file listing here: https://download-cdn.panic.com/mirror/Linux/
- "https://download-cdn.panic.com/mirror/Linux/mirror-${pkgver}.x86_64.deb"
+ "https://download-cdn.panic.com/mirror/Linux/Mirror-${pkgver}.x86_64.deb"
"50-playdate-mirror.rules"
)

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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
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2026-07-24 00:02:28 LOW 2
2026-07-23 21:26:05 MEDIUM 1
2026-06-20 00:18:46 CLEAN 2
2026-06-19 23:51:18 CLEAN 2
2026-06-19 19:07:35 LOW 2
2026-06-18 18:55:24 CLEAN 2
2026-06-18 16:11:54 MEDIUM 1

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