commit: aaae069a51aa80812e4bb30025552756e38c30f3 Author: Michael Orlitzky <mjo <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Wed Apr 1 18:43:18 2020 +0000 Commit: Michael Orlitzky <mjo <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Wed Apr 1 18:48:55 2020 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=aaae069a
profiles: mask app-antivirus/clamav-unofficial-sigs for removal. This package tries very hard to run itself as root and unsafely change random permissions and ownership on your system. Now that there are alternatives (freshclam and/or fangfrisch), it needs to go. Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <mjo <AT> gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask index 1977f04e5e6..94886440756 100644 --- a/profiles/package.mask +++ b/profiles/package.mask @@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ #--- END OF EXAMPLES --- +# Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> (2020-04-01) +# Upstream has no idea what they're doing, and every new version +# introduces more security issues. Freshclam itself can now fetch +# most third-party signatures, or app-antivirus/fangfrisch serves +# as a replacement with a sane upstream. +app-antivirus/clamav-unofficial-sigs + # Andreas Sturmlechner <[email protected]> (2020-03-30) # Unmaintained revdep on dev-python/pygtk blocking its removal, py2-only # Bugs #484270 and #705646, masked for removal in 30 days.
