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Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
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libgdata here is specifically very messy. It was an official package since it was a required dependency for older versions of GNOME, then in GNOME 50 they dropped the dependency and so did Arch from their repos. But because pacman doesn't remove dangling dependencies, you end up with libgdata still installed, until Arch Linux moves dropped packages into the AUR as an orphan, which happened in this case 5/31. This allowed it to be perfectly timed for the attackers to pick it up on 6/11. Now, you'd inadvertently update libgdata from an AUR source if you're using an AUR helper.