writ-bin

maintainer ibrahemid · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package installs a prebuilt AppImage from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a common but unverifiable practice; however, it is not inherently malicious as it comes from the maintainer's own repository and no remote code execution or obfuscation is present.

Triggered rules

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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 AppImage from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a common but unverifiable practice; however, it is not inherently malicious as it comes from the maintainer's own repository and no remote code execution or obfuscation is present.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: ibrahemid <ibrahemid@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=writ-bin
    
      3_pkgname=writ
    
      4pkgver=0.2.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Lightweight, always-ready text editor for developers"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://github.com/ibrahemid/writ"
    
      9license=('MIT')
    
      10depends=('glibc' 'fuse2' 'gtk3' 'webkit2gtk-4.1')
    
      11optdepends=('appimagelauncher: desktop integration for AppImages')
    
      12provides=("${_pkgname}")
    
      13conflicts=("${_pkgname}")
    
      14options=('!strip')
    
      15source=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage::${url}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/Writ_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage"
    
      16        "LICENSE-${pkgver}::${url}/raw/v${pkgver}/LICENSE")
    
      17noextract=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage")
    
      18sha256sums=('cbc02a0929aa5bb2c934b82b1aa633b3b7c2ae83968453d46772605155608911'
    
      19            'SKIP')
    
      20
    
      21prepare() {
    
      22    chmod +x "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage"
    
      23    "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage" --appimage-extract >/dev/null
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26package() {
    
      27    local root="${srcdir}/squashfs-root"
    
      28
    
      29    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/"
    
      30    cp -r "${root}/"* "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/"
    
      31    chmod -R u+rwX,go+rX,go-w "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}"
    
      32
    
      33    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      34    ln -s "/opt/${_pkgname}/AppRun" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}"
    
      35
    
      36    # Tauri names the bundled entry and icons after the product and the main
    
      37    # binary: Writ.desktop and writ-tauri.png. Both are renamed to writ here so
    
      38    # the desktop entry, the icon it points at, and /usr/bin/writ agree.
    
      39    install -Dm644 "${root}/usr/share/applications/Writ.desktop" \
    
      40        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
    
      41    sed -i -e "s|^Exec=.*|Exec=/opt/${_pkgname}/AppRun %U|" \
    
      42        -e "s|^Icon=.*|Icon=${_pkgname}|" \
    
      43        -e "s|^StartupWMClass=.*|StartupWMClass=writ-tauri|" \
    
      44        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
    
      45
    
      46    local icon rel
    
      47    while IFS= read -r -d '' icon; do
    
      48        rel="${icon#${root}/usr/share/icons/}"
    
      49        install -Dm644 "${icon}" \
    
      50            "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/${rel%/*}/${_pkgname}.png"
    
      51    done < <(find "${root}/usr/share/icons" -name 'writ-tauri.png' -print0)
    
      52
    
      53    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE-${pkgver}" \
    
      54        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      55}
    
      56

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 19:28:12	LOW	2