qcopy

MEDIUM
maintainer Connor 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (pkg.tar.xz) from a personal domain (concise.cc) owned by the maintainer, rather than from the project's official GitLab release infrastructure. While the maintainer controls both the domain and the GitLab repo, distributing a prebuilt binary from a personal host rather than building from source is a genuine supply-chain concern: if concise.cc is compromised or the maintainer acts maliciously, users receive an arbitrary binary. The package installs an executable to /usr/bin/qcopy. There is a sha512sum and a PGP key listed, which mitigates but does not eliminate the risk (the PGP key's trustworthiness depends on the maintainer). The arch=(any) designation is also suspicious for a binary package. Overall this is a real medium-severity supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host.

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 "https://concise.cc/pkg/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-$arch.pkg.tar.xz"
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (pkg.tar.xz) from a personal domain (concise.cc) owned by the maintainer, rather than from the project's official GitLab release infrastructure. While the maintainer controls both the domain and the GitLab repo, distributing a prebuilt binary from a personal host rather than building from source is a genuine supply-chain concern: if concise.cc is compromised or the maintainer acts maliciously, users receive an arbitrary binary. The package installs an executable to /usr/bin/qcopy. There is a sha512sum and a PGP key listed, which mitigates but does not eliminate the risk (the PGP key's trustworthiness depends on the maintainer). The arch=(any) designation is also suspicious for a binary package. Overall this is a real medium-severity supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Connor Etherington <connor@concise.cc>
2# ---
3pkgname=qcopy
4pkgver=2.0.0
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Easily save important snippets such as passwords for quick access copying at any point"
7arch=(any)
8url="https://gitlab.com/a4to/${pkgname}"
9license=('MIT')
10depends=(fzf dialog xsel bat xdotool)
11install="qcopy.install"
12source=(
13 "https://concise.cc/pkg/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-$arch.pkg.tar.xz"
14)
15sha512sums=(
16 '1609ab96821abab32bb82c46d1dc30dac14f80f7b08654ba67895cc4bca72b563fdb2a08fe2d7e4494339766983202daefc994c410d58687d0df3b7cd31869c0'
17 )
18md5sums=(
19 '9d279e2db31df2e6b72ffebaa3a0a69f'
20 )
21validpgpkeys=(
22 '81BACEEBC3EA26E127166E4A819BB92A9A48160E'
23 )
24
25package() {
26
27 cd "$srcdir/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-${arch}" ||
28 cd "$srcdir/${pkgname}"
29
30 install -Dm755 usr/bin/${pkgname} "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
31 install -Dm644 usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
32 install -Dm644 usr/share/man/man1/${pkgname}.1.gz "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1/${pkgname}.1.gz"
33
34}
35

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