diff --git a/app-antivirus/clamav/clamav-0.99.2-r1.ebuild b/app-antivirus/clamav/clamav-0.99.2-r1.ebuild
index 409382855e3..cc4a9488a78 100644
--- a/app-antivirus/clamav/clamav-0.99.2-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-antivirus/clamav/clamav-0.99.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=6
 inherit autotools eutils flag-o-matic user systemd
 
 DESCRIPTION="Clam Anti-Virus Scanner"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.clamav.net/"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.clamav.net/"
 # no longer on sf.net from 0.99.2 onwards
 SRC_URI="https://www.clamav.net/downloads/production/${P}.tar.gz"
 
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ CDEPEND="bzip2? ( app-arch/bzip2 )
        iconv? ( virtual/libiconv )
        metadata-analysis-api? ( dev-libs/json-c )
        milter? ( || ( mail-filter/libmilter mail-mta/sendmail ) )
+       dev-libs/libpcre2
        dev-libs/libtommath
        >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.2
        !libressl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0= )
        libressl? ( dev-libs/libressl:0= )
        sys-devel/libtool
-       >dev-libs/libpcre-6
        !!<app-antivirus/clamav-0.99"
 # hard block clamav < 0.99 due to linking problems Bug #567680
 # openssl is now *required* see this link as to why