slate-bin

LOW

maintainer dusanb 0 votes scanned 2026-10-06 00:13:36.889724

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Why flagged

The package installs a prebuilt binary from GitHub Releases, which is a common and generally acceptable practice for AUR packages; the source is verifiable via signed tags and checksums, and the low severity reflects minimal votes and recent upload, not inherent risk.

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Low Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

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 95%): The package installs a prebuilt binary from GitHub Releases, which is a common and generally acceptable practice for AUR packages; the source is verifiable via signed tags and checksums, and the low severity reflects minimal votes and recent upload, not inherent risk.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: Dusan Borovcanin <borovcanindusan1@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3# The binary the Release workflow builds for a v* tag, repackaged.
    
      4#
    
      5# pkgver and sha256sums are rewritten by scripts/aur-publish.sh when a tag is
    
      6# released, so the copy in the repository always describes a real release.
    
      7
    
      8pkgname=slate-bin
    
      9_pkgname=slate
    
      10pkgver=0.3.0
    
      11pkgrel=1
    
      12pkgdesc="Minimal, keyboard-first terminal note-taking scratchpad (prebuilt binary)"
    
      13# The Release workflow publishes one Linux binary, and it is x86-64.
    
      14arch=('x86_64')
    
      15url="https://github.com/dborovcanin/slate"
    
      16license=('custom')
    
      17# What readelf -d records: libgcc_s, libm and libc.
    
      18depends=('glibc' 'libgcc')
    
      19options=('!debug')
    
      20conflicts=('slate' 'slate-git')
    
      21# The tag archive comes along for the desktop entry, the icon and the README:
    
      22# the release asset is the binary on its own.
    
      23source=("$_pkgname-$pkgver-linux-x86_64::$url/releases/download/v$pkgver/slate-linux-x86_64"
    
      24  "$_pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::$url/archive/refs/tags/v$pkgver.tar.gz")
    
      25sha256sums=('480375acefb279183146d65f2cf3c6fb03311618ee9636b6c0bed72cdaa37f7a'
    
      26            'ba7ce5b1caa0513dcd9d1025b2efc922bb670a3bf4f17c7b4c17643275e9b5fe')
    
      27
    
      28package() {
    
      29  install -Dm755 "$srcdir/$_pkgname-$pkgver-linux-x86_64" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$_pkgname"
    
      30
    
      31  cd "$_pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      32  install -Dm644 slate.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/slate.desktop"
    
      33  install -Dm644 slate.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/slate.png"
    
      34  install -Dm644 README.md "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$_pkgname/README.md"
    
      35}
    
      36

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2026-10-06 00:13:36	Low	2
2026-10-05 23:40:58	Low	2