wikistow-desktop-bin

LOW

maintainer skint007 0 votes scanned 2026-10-17 01:16:24.843905

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt tarball from a GitHub release, which is a common and generally acceptable practice for AUR binary packages; the source is verifiable and the checksum is provided, though the low vote count and recent upload are minor risk indicators.

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.

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt tarball from a GitHub release, which is a common and generally acceptable practice for AUR binary packages; the source is verifiable and the checksum is provided, though the low vote count and recent upload are minor risk indicators.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: skint007 <archlinux.repose742@passmail.net>
    
      2#
    
      3# The desktop app from a GitHub Release, as CI built and tested it
    
      4# (docs/releasing.md). The release workflow sets the maintainer's email,
    
      5# _version, pkgrel and the checksum when it publishes this to the AUR; the
    
      6# values here are the release this copy was last checked against.
    
      7
    
      8# pacman sorts a prerelease such as 0.3.0rc.1 before 0.3.0 only without the `-`.
    
      9_version=0.8.0
    
      10pkgname=wikistow-desktop-bin
    
      11pkgver=${_version//-/}
    
      12pkgrel=1
    
      13pkgdesc="Desktop app for your family's encrypted wiki"
    
      14# The app itself is JavaScript; the system Electron it runs on is x86_64 only.
    
      15arch=('x86_64')
    
      16url="https://github.com/skint007/wikistow"
    
      17license=('MIT')
    
      18# desktop-file-utils' pacman hook registers the wikistow:// handler, which
    
      19# desktops other than GNOME and KDE need for the browser to open the app.
    
      20# Signing in opens the browser with xdg-open, optional for electron44.
    
      21depends=('electron44' 'desktop-file-utils' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'xdg-utils')
    
      22optdepends=('gnome-keyring: keep the sign-in and a remembered unlock between launches'
    
      23            'kwallet: keep the sign-in and a remembered unlock between launches')
    
      24provides=('wikistow-desktop')
    
      25conflicts=('wikistow-desktop')
    
      26source=("https://github.com/skint007/wikistow/releases/download/v$_version/wikistow-desktop-$_version.tar.gz")
    
      27sha256sums=('10c7ab98bec63a345d448ef9f5b1ed5da360f699f649ea8f13e386d46d601b5e')
    
      28
    
      29package() {
    
      30    cd "wikistow-desktop-$_version"
    
      31    install -Dm644 app.asar "$pkgdir/usr/lib/wikistow-desktop/app.asar"
    
      32    # How the app was installed, for the app to read (docs/desktop.md).
    
      33    echo aur > "$pkgdir/usr/lib/wikistow-desktop/install-source"
    
      34    install -Dm755 wikistow-desktop "$pkgdir/usr/bin/wikistow-desktop"
    
      35    install -Dm644 wikistow-desktop.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/wikistow-desktop.desktop"
    
      36    install -Dm644 wikistow-desktop.svg "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/wikistow-desktop.svg"
    
      37    install -Dm644 wikistow-desktop.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/wikistow-desktop.png"
    
      38    install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      39}
    
      40

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-17 00:21
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-17 01:16
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # values here are the release this copy was last checked against.
 
 # pacman sorts a prerelease such as 0.3.0rc.1 before 0.3.0 only without the `-`.
-_version=0.7.0
+_version=0.8.0
 pkgname=wikistow-desktop-bin
 pkgver=${_version//-/}
 pkgrel=1
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 provides=('wikistow-desktop')
 conflicts=('wikistow-desktop')
 source=("https://github.com/skint007/wikistow/releases/download/v$_version/wikistow-desktop-$_version.tar.gz")
-sha256sums=('9e46616336a89a40aea4f1452b0f9d56a945c526721bf62d2806faa4bf8d4b3c')
+sha256sums=('10c7ab98bec63a345d448ef9f5b1ed5da360f699f649ea8f13e386d46d601b5e')
 
 package() {
     cd "wikistow-desktop-$_version"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-17 01:16:24	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Clean	2
2026-10-16 19:16:12	Low	1
2026-10-16 15:16:11	Low	1
2026-10-16 13:16:10	Low	1
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Clean	2
2026-10-15 15:12:23	Low	1
2026-10-15 01:21:20	Low	1