soundcloud-bin

MEDIUM
maintainer loli69 1 votes scanned 2026-08-22 17:18:20.171967
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Why flagged

The package downloads prebuilt .deb binaries from a GitHub release on a non-whitelisted host; while the checksums are verified, the binaries are unverifiable executables that could be malicious if the source were compromised.

Triggered rules

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.

Medium AI review of an ambiguous pattern llm_review

The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed it and judged it MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads prebuilt .deb binaries from a GitHub release on a non-whitelisted host; while the checksums are verified, the binaries are unverifiable executables that could be malicious if the source were compromised.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: zxcloli666 <156155219+zxcloli666@users.noreply.github.com>
2
3# CI (aur-publish.yml) rewrites pkgver/pkgrel/sha256sums_* with ^-anchored sed:
4# keep those four assignments one-line and at column 0.
5pkgname=soundcloud-bin
6pkgver=8.4.13
7pkgrel=1
8pkgdesc="🎵🎵🎵 THE BEST SOUNDCLOUD DESKTOP APP FOR WINDOWS, LINUX & MACOS | AI WAVE | NO ADS | NO CAPTCHA | NO RESTRICTIONS"
9arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
10url="https://github.com/zxcloli666/SoundCloud-Desktop"
11license=('MIT')
12depends=('gtk3' 'libappindicator' 'webkit2gtk-4.1')
13provides=("soundcloud-desktop=${pkgver}")
14conflicts=('soundcloud-desktop')
15options=('!strip' '!debug')
16
17_app='soundcloud-desktop'
18
19source=("LICENSE::${url}/raw/${pkgver}/LICENSE"
20 "${_app}.desktop")
21sha256sums=('3bed3331b7048bac17cf50e249d560ccc9508c970da8d7b9283bf4f2e633a91d'
22 '123e9a1e84eec9b29106ee83de9f5d24be17659468731babe22cf1faeb89bb3b')
23
24source_x86_64=("soundcloud-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::${url}/releases/download/${pkgver}/soundcloud-desktop_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
25sha256sums_x86_64=('331cb2553e295e0c19f7967cba689c8cebd266fce3bfbe3d31b8c50455aa6475')
26
27source_aarch64=("soundcloud-${pkgver}-aarch64.deb::${url}/releases/download/${pkgver}/soundcloud-desktop_${pkgver}_arm64.deb")
28sha256sums_aarch64=('4f038e22daf8fdd7d35783a6199844e4105e7231d2151670a850c8d79c4f4999')
29
30noextract=("soundcloud-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb"
31 "soundcloud-${pkgver}-aarch64.deb")
32
33prepare() {
34 # makepkg only wipes $srcdir with -C, so drop the previous unpack ourselves.
35 rm -rf "$srcdir/usr" "$srcdir/control.tar.gz" "$srcdir/data.tar.gz" "$srcdir/debian-binary"
36 bsdtar -xOf "soundcloud-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.deb" 'data.tar*' | bsdtar -xf - -C "$srcdir"
37}
38
39package() {
40 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/bin/${_app}" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/${_app}"
41
42 local _icon
43 while IFS= read -r -d '' _icon; do
44 install -Dm644 "$_icon" "$pkgdir/${_icon#"$srcdir"/}"
45 done < <(find "$srcdir/usr/share/icons" -type f -print0)
46
47 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/${_app}.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/${_app}.desktop"
48 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
49}
50
51

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-16 13:32
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-22 17:18
@@ -48,3 +48,4 @@
install -Dm644 "$srcdir/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
}
+

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