Re: multimedia/sickgear removed due to several RCEs + upstream response

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Am 09.09.2026 um 22:11 schrieb Jonathan Schleifer:
> I should probably also write here: A few days ago, I deleted 
> multimedia/sickgear from pkgsrc due to several remote code execution 
> bugs, several things that have a strong smell like a backdoor (I can't 
> say they are or they are not - it depends on what the author's webserver 
> serves at which time etc.) and the upstream response to it: 
> https://github.com/SickGear/SickGear/issues/1517
> 
> Since upstream actively tried to brush everything under the rug, edited 
> my comments to misrepresent what I said etc. you might instead want to 
> read what I let NixOS know as a courtesy:
> https://github.com/SickGear/SickGear/issues/1517

That should have been https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/560697.

Thank you for removing the package, it definitely smells.

Roland