pulsar-music-bin

maintainer nord · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-standard host (lab.nordstud.io) which is not a well-known or project-official release domain, and the checksum is skipped, making the binary artifact unverifiable and potentially swappable by an unrelated party.

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:13 source=("pulsar-music_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://lab.nordstud.io/api/v4/projects/72/packages/generic/pulsar/0.1.0/pulsar-music_0.1.0_amd64.deb")
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 90%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-standard host (lab.nordstud.io) which is not a well-known or project-official release domain, and the checksum is skipped, making the binary artifact unverifiable and potentially swappable by an unrelated party.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: tygrdev <hi@tygr.dev>
2# Contributor: tygrdev, wackery
3pkgname=pulsar-music-bin
4pkgver=0.1.0
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="A local-first, cross-platform music player."
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://usepulsar.app"
9license=('AGPL-3.0-or-later')
10provides=('pulsar-music')
11conflicts=('pulsar-music')
12depends=('alsa-lib' 'fontconfig' 'freetype2' 'libxkbcommon' 'libx11' 'libxcb' 'wayland' 'dbus' 'vulkan-icd-loader')
13source=("pulsar-music_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://lab.nordstud.io/api/v4/projects/72/packages/generic/pulsar/0.1.0/pulsar-music_0.1.0_amd64.deb")
14sha256sums=('SKIP')
15
16package() {
17 bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}/pulsar-music_${pkgver}_amd64.deb" -C "${srcdir}"
18 bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}"/data.tar.* -C "${pkgdir}"
19
20 local hicolor="${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor"
21 local std="${hicolor}/512x512/apps/pulsar.png"
22 if [ ! -f "${std}" ]; then
23 local icon
24 icon=$(find "${hicolor}" -type f -name 'pulsar.png' -print -quit 2>/dev/null)
25 if [ -n "${icon}" ]; then
26 install -Dm644 "${icon}" "${std}"
27 rm -f "${icon}"
28 rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty "$(dirname "${icon}")" 2>/dev/null || true
29 fi
30 fi
31}
32

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-24 00:02
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# Maintainer: tygrdev <hi@tygr.dev>
# Contributor: tygrdev, wackery
pkgname=pulsar-music-bin
-pkgver=0.0.4
+pkgver=0.1.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A local-first, cross-platform music player."
arch=('x86_64')
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
provides=('pulsar-music')
conflicts=('pulsar-music')
depends=('alsa-lib' 'fontconfig' 'freetype2' 'libxkbcommon' 'libx11' 'libxcb' 'wayland' 'dbus' 'vulkan-icd-loader')
-source=("pulsar-music_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://lab.nordstud.io/api/v4/projects/72/packages/generic/pulsar/0.0.4/pulsar-music_0.0.4_amd64.deb")
+source=("pulsar-music_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://lab.nordstud.io/api/v4/projects/72/packages/generic/pulsar/0.1.0/pulsar-music_0.1.0_amd64.deb")
sha256sums=('SKIP')
package() {

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