Gentoo Archives: gentoo-commits

From: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@g.o>
To: gentoo-commits@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: profiles/
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 11:04:19
Message-Id: 1652958173.9e263f3dfed13f5e8d78f407aa7f1859bb0879bf.andrewammerlaan@gentoo
1 commit: 9e263f3dfed13f5e8d78f407aa7f1859bb0879bf
2 Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
3 AuthorDate: Thu May 19 11:02:53 2022 +0000
4 Commit: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
5 CommitDate: Thu May 19 11:02:53 2022 +0000
6 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=9e263f3d
7
8 profiles: mask whatsapp-desktop-bin for removal
9
10 use net-im/wazzapp instead
11
12 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/844985
13 Signed-off-by: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo.org>
14
15 profiles/package.mask | 8 ++++++++
16 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
17
18 diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
19 index da76b35b34a9..cf3499006352 100644
20 --- a/profiles/package.mask
21 +++ b/profiles/package.mask
22 @@ -33,6 +33,14 @@
23
24 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
25
26 +# Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@g.o> (2022-05-19)
27 +# Unfortunately this has completely stopped working due to
28 +# upstream changes in WhatsApp. Bug 844985. As an alternative
29 +# try: *net-im/wazzapp-bin* which still works and also
30 +# offers additional features over whatsapp-desktop-bin
31 +# Masked for removal in 30 days
32 +net-im/whatsapp-desktop-bin
33 +
34 # Sam James <sam@g.o> (2022-05-19)
35 # Crashes xine (from xine-ui) on startup for several users.
36 # bug #845396