tinspec-bin

maintainer sademir · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The package installs a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted host (tinspec.dev) without source availability or reproducibility, creating a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or the artifact is swapped.

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:23 source=("https://tinspec.dev/releases/Tinspec_${_upver}_amd64.deb")
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package installs a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted host (tinspec.dev) without source availability or reproducibility, creating a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or the artifact is swapped.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Samet Demir <dev@sademir.com>
2#
3# Template — do not edit the generated PKGBUILD by hand. `update-aur.sh <version>` fills the
4# @PLACEHOLDERS@ and pushes to the AUR. Repacks the released .deb (built by the desktop repo's
5# GitLab CI and published to tinspec.dev); only the *latest* version's source URL resolves — the
6# site prunes older artifacts on publish.
7pkgname=tinspec-bin
8pkgver=0.1.0preview.1
9pkgrel=1
10pkgdesc="Request-testing tool for backend developers — spec-driven endpoints, request chains, automated auth"
11arch=('x86_64')
12url="https://tinspec.dev"
13license=('AGPL-3.0-only')
14# The Arch closure of the .deb's Depends (webkit2gtk-4.1 + gtk3 and their usual companions).
15# update-aur.sh prints the .deb's actual Depends on every run — reconcile if it changes.
16depends=('webkit2gtk-4.1' 'gtk3' 'cairo' 'gdk-pixbuf2' 'glib2' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'libsoup3' 'openssl')
17optdepends=('xdg-desktop-portal-gtk: native file/folder pickers'
18 'org.freedesktop.secrets: store auth secrets in the system keyring')
19provides=('tinspec')
20conflicts=('tinspec')
21options=('!strip' '!debug')
22_upver=0.1.0-preview.1
23source=("https://tinspec.dev/releases/Tinspec_${_upver}_amd64.deb")
24sha256sums=('02384145cfb136b16fd76f6ecde1d581ad789ac19e317693fdc8640d19850f9f')
25
26package() {
27 # The .deb is an ar archive whose payload is data.tar.{gz,xz,zst} — unpack it straight into
28 # $pkgdir (it already carries usr/bin, icons, and the .desktop file). Updates flow through
29 # pacman; the app detects newer releases but is notify-only for this install (no self-update).
30 local data
31 data=$(bsdtar -tf "$srcdir/Tinspec_${_upver}_amd64.deb" | grep '^data.tar')
32 bsdtar -xOf "$srcdir/Tinspec_${_upver}_amd64.deb" "$data" | bsdtar -xf - -C "$pkgdir"
33}
34

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-17 00:06
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
# GitLab CI and published to tinspec.dev); only the *latest* version's source URL resolves — the
# site prunes older artifacts on publish.
pkgname=tinspec-bin
-pkgver=0.1.0beta.12
+pkgver=0.1.0preview.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Request-testing tool for backend developers — spec-driven endpoints, request chains, automated auth"
arch=('x86_64')
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
provides=('tinspec')
conflicts=('tinspec')
options=('!strip' '!debug')
-_upver=0.1.0-beta.12
+_upver=0.1.0-preview.1
source=("https://tinspec.dev/releases/Tinspec_${_upver}_amd64.deb")
-sha256sums=('5e26ee900f9171d927f8639cbff2be026eef6759a4d11f0dc8cdaaf405612a78')
+sha256sums=('02384145cfb136b16fd76f6ecde1d581ad789ac19e317693fdc8640d19850f9f')
package() {
# The .deb is an ar archive whose payload is data.tar.{gz,xz,zst} — unpack it straight into

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