wingpro8

LOW
maintainer orphaned 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary from the official project domain (wingware.com), which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; despite the non-whitelisted host, this is a standard distribution method for the software, and the worst case of a swapped source would be code execution, but the source is verifiable via the provided sha1sum.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary from the official project domain (wingware.com), which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; despite the non-whitelisted host, this is a standard distribution method for the software, and the worst case of a swapped source would be code execution, but the source is verifiable via the provided sha1sum.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
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:17 source=("https://wingware.com/pub/wingpro/$pkgver/wingpro-$pkgver-linux-x64.tar.bz2" )

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Samarth Ramesh <samarthr1@outlook.com>
2
3pkgname="wingpro8"
4
5# cannot call it wingide8 as some parts hardcode it as wingide
6_pkg_pname=wingide
7
8pkgver=8.3.0.0
9pkgrel=1
10
11pkgdesc="Wing IDE Professional is the full-featured Python IDE for professional programmers."
12url="http://www.wingware.com"
13
14license=('custom')
15arch=('x86_64')
16
17source=("https://wingware.com/pub/wingpro/$pkgver/wingpro-$pkgver-linux-x64.tar.bz2" )
18sha1sums=("b84739fb603f0195e58bd28d251d3c0e01f51673")
19
20depends=('xdg-utils' 'python' 'qt5-svg' 'libxcb' 'perl' 'java-runtime')
21provides=(${_pkg_pname})
22conflicts=(${_pkg_pname})
23
24install=${_pkg_pname}.install
25
26options=("!strip")
27
28package() {
29 cd "$srcdir/wingpro-$pkgver-linux-x64"
30 ./wing-install.py \
31 --install-binary \
32 --winghome "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkg_pname}" \
33 --bin-dir ${pkgdir}/usr/bin > /dev/null 2>&1
34
35 sed -i "s|${pkgdir}||" ${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkg_pname}/wingdbstub.py
36 sed -i "s|${pkgdir}||" ${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkg_pname}/wing
37 sed -i 's|ARCH=`arch`|ARCH=`uname -m`|' ${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkg_pname}/bootstrap/run-wing.sh
38 # Fix a bug in the script
39
40 sed -i "s|'`echo $arch`'\]|'`echo $arch`' \]|" ${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkg_pname}/bootstrap/run-wing.sh
41
42 # Copy over patch (if any)
43 if [ -d ../patches ]; then
44 cp -r ../patches ${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkg_pname}/.
45 fi
46
47 # remove refrence to ${pkgdir}
48 sed -i "s,${pkgdir},,g" "${pkgdir}/opt/wingide/file-list.txt"
49
50 # Correct the file permissions
51 chown -R root:root "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkg_pname}"
52 chmod +x ${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkg_pname}/resources/linux/desktop/install-linux-desktop.sh
53 # Install the LICENSE
54 install -D -m 644 "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkg_pname}/LICENSE.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgpname}/LICENSE"
55}
56

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