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Masked for # removal on 2023-04-28. dev-ruby/rspec:2 dev-ruby/rspec-core:2 dev-ruby/rspec-expectations:2 dev-ruby/rspec-mocks:2 # Sam James (2023-03-29) # Stuck on ruby27, low activity upstream, needs someone who actively uses it to # test it properly as automated tests require an API key. # Removal on 2023-04-28. Bug #903542. dev-ruby/flickraw # Sam James (2023-03-29) # Only supports imminently-EOL ruby27, depends on obsolete QtScript instead # of QML. Support for other languages was removed long ago, e.g. python support # is stuck on python2-only. Kross itself is on the chopping block too: # bug #810493, bug #903532. # Removal on 2023-04-28. kde-apps/kross-interpreters # Sam James (2023-03-29) # Only supports imminently-EOL ruby27. # Removal on 2023-04-28. Bug #903499. net-misc/mikutter # Hans de Graaff (2023-03-29) # ruby27-only package. app-text/ronn-ng is a drop-in replacement. it is # also the only consumer of dev-ruby/hpricot which has a ruby30 target # but is not actually compatible. Masked for removal on 2023-04-29. app-text/ronn dev-ruby/hpricot # Hans de Graaff (2023-03-29) # ruby27-only package without tests and without maintainer. Upstream # releases new versions in an unversioned zip file. This needs a # dedicated maintainer that can test this package. # Masked for removal on 2023-04-29. app-admin/ec2-ami-tools # Sam James (2023-03-29) # Regressions in solving ability affecting e.g. igraph: # https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/401 # https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/410 # https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/411 # https://github.com/igraph/igraph/issues/2311 =sci-libs/arpack-3.9.0 # Michał Górny (2023-03-28) # Unfetchable, the homepage is gone. Last updated in 2020. # Removal on 2023-04-27. Bug #831304. net-analyzer/netio # Michał Górny (2023-03-28) # Unfetchable due to untrusted TLS certificate. The game doesn't seem # to work anyway (displays blank window). # Removal on 2023-04-27. Bug #835858. games-rpg/coe2 # Michał Górny (2023-03-28) # No upstream activity since Jan 2019. The current version fails # to build. Multiple other bugs reported. # Removal on 2023-04-27. Bug #902069. acct-group/shellinaboxd acct-user/shellinaboxd www-misc/shellinabox # Michał Górny (2023-03-28) # Unmaintained. The current Gentoo version is from 2017 and has # multiple build failures reported. # Removal on 2023-04-27. Bug #721816. app-editors/le # Sam James (2023-03-27) # The upstream tzinfo maintainers recommend using 2023a for now because of the # disruption regarding Lebanon's DST change. See https://lore.kernel.org/distributions/87cz4u2gmj.fsf@gentoo.org/T/#u. =sys-libs/timezone-data-2023b =dev-python/pytz-2023.2-r1 =dev-perl/DateTime-TimeZone-2.580.0 # Michał Górny (2023-03-26) # No py3.11. Last release in 2014. No revdeps. # Removal on 2023-04-25. Bug #896762. dev-python/collective-checkdocs # Hans de Graaff (2023-03-26) # Mask ruby27-only version of puppet for removal. Please upgrade to # puppetserver 7 and either puppet-agent 7 or puppet 7. # Masked for removal on 2023-04-26. =app-admin/puppet-5* # Sam James (2023-03-24) # Please upgrade to make-4.4.1 as make-4.4 has a bunch of issues. =sys-devel/make-4.4 # John Helmert III (2023-03-22) # Multiple vulnerabilities, unmaintained and broken in Gentoo, removal # on 2023-04-22. Bug #782037, #850547. net-fs/minio # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2023-03-23) # Unused Java libraries. Removal on 2023-04-22. dev-java/tomcat-jsp-api dev-java/tomcat-el-api dev-java/glassfish-xmlrpc-api # David Seifert (2023-03-19) # Unmaintained, last release 18 years ago, assortment of QA issues, # upstream gone, fails with modern C, no revdeps remaining. # Removal on 2023-04-18. Bug #833484, #833536, #833944, #883757. dev-perl/PerlMol # Hans de Graaff (2023-03-19) # This version of cucumber-core is not compatible with the other # cucumber dependencies. Please downgrade cucumber-core. =dev-util/cucumber-core-11.1.0 # David Seifert (2023-03-19) # Upstream disappeared, last release over 8.5 years ago, unmaintained, # laundry list of QA issues, fails with modern C, no revdeps remaining. # Removal on 2023-04-18. Bug #683166, #814658, #834966, #898262. sci-libs/xdrfile # David Seifert (2023-03-19) # Last release over 7.5 years ago, repo link broken and redirects to # homepage, build system is a mess, fails with modern C. # Removal on 2023-04-18. Bug #802729, #862414, #876993, #880577. x11-wm/subtle # David Seifert (2023-03-19) # Last release over 5 years ago, fails with modern C, no revdeps in # tree. # Removal on 2023-04-18. Bug #884407. dev-ruby/ruby-xslt # David Seifert (2023-03-19) # Last release over 10 years ago, fails with modern C, no revdeps in # tree. # Removal on 2023-04-18. Bug #587222, #884409. dev-ruby/tidy-ext # David Seifert (2023-03-19) # Upstream disappeared, last release over 8 years ago, fails with modern # C, no revdeps in tree. # Removal on 2023-04-18. Bug #713784, #895686. dev-ruby/sigar # David Seifert (2023-03-19) # Apache NIH make, long abandoned upstream, forked reboot went nowhere. # Last release over 2 years ago, fails with modern C and no revdeps in # tree. Removal on 2023-04-18. Bug #880401. dev-util/dmake # Hans de Graaff (2023-03-19) # ruby27-only package without reverse dependencies. No recent activity # upstream and last supported ruby version is 2.5. Masked for removal on # 2023-04-19. dev-ruby/bit-struct # Obsolete slot using an older version of faraday. Use the newer slot # instead. Masked for removal on 2023-04-19. dev-ruby/elasticsearch:6 dev-ruby/elasticsearch-api:6 dev-ruby/elasticsearch-transport:6 # Hans de Graaff (2023-03-19) # Last upstream activity 5 years ago, no longer works with modern # Cucumber. Masked for removal on 2023-04-19. dev-ruby/fivemat # David Seifert (2023-03-18) # Upstream disappeared, last release over 20 years ago, only Gentoo # still carries this, breaks with modern C under Clang, no revdeps. # Removal on 2023-04-17. Bug #875683. net-analyzer/bigeye # David Seifert (2023-03-18) # Upstream disappeared, last release over 15 years ago, only Gentoo # still carries this, breaks with modern C under Clang, no revdeps. # Removal on 2023-04-17. Bug #875020. net-analyzer/traceroute-nanog # David Seifert (2023-03-18) # Last release over 7.5 years ago, only Gentoo still carries this, # breaks with modern C under Clang, no revdeps. # Removal on 2023-04-17. Bug #871711. media-plugins/vdr-remotetimers # David Seifert (2023-03-18) # Upstream disappeared, release is over 14 years old, only Gentoo still # carries this, breaks with modern C under Clang, no revdeps. # Removal on 2023-04-17. Bug #862438. sci-chemistry/prekin # David Seifert (2023-03-18) # Unmaintained in Gentoo, last upstream commit 7 years ago, breaks with # modern C under Clang, no revdeps. Bug #741078, #874648, #883303. # Removal on 2023-04-17. net-wireless/spectools # Hans de Graaff (2023-03-18) # Ancient out-of-date package. No proper upstream release since 2011. # No reverse dependencies. Masked for removal on 2023-04-18. dev-ruby/six # Sam James (2023-03-16) # Breaks building C++ consumers. See bug #901211 and bug #901035. # Please upgrade to glib-2.76.0-r1. =dev-libs/glib-2.76.0 # Alfredo Tupone (2023-03-14) # Masked for removal in 30 days. # Bug #895824, no rev dep dev-tcltk/tkzinc # David Seifert (2023-03-12) # Qt-based application is EOL, Yubico has switched to a Flutter-based # Googleware framework. Switch to app-crypt/yubioath-flutter-bin or use # your phone for TOTP. Blocks app-crypt/yubikey-manager-4 cleanups. # Removal on 2023-04-11. app-crypt/yubioath-desktop # Hans de Graaff (2023-03-12) # Mask ruby27-only slot for removal. Use a newer slot instead. # Masked for removal on 2023-04-12. dev-ruby/net-http-persistent:3 # Hans de Graaff (2023-03-11) # Mask ruby27-only dev-ruby/sass-rails:5.0 for removal. Use a newer # sass-rails slot or consider migrating to sassc-rails. Masked for # removal on 2023-04-11. dev-ruby/sass-rails:5.0 # Mike Pagano (2023-03-10) # Mask =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.15.99 since it does # not include 5.15.99 and is misleading =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.15.99 # Matthew Smith (2023-03-08) # No longer works after Google shut down the Hangouts API. # Bug #900412, removal on 2023-04-08. x11-plugins/purple-hangouts # Mike Pagano (2023-02-27) # Mask =www-servers/nginx-unit-1.29.0-r1 for testing =www-servers/nginx-unit-1.29.0-r1 # Torokhov Sergey (2023-02-26) # The masked version causes GIMP breaking of Cut/Copy/Paste # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/9175 =media-libs/babl-0.1.100 # Michał Górny (2023-02-25) # Major update. Multiple packages are known to be broken. # Masked for further testing. >=dev-python/cython-3 # Ben Kohler (2023-01-30) # Breaks too many revdeps for now =app-text/discount-3* # David Seifert (2023-01-14) # Py3.8 only backports dev-python/backports-tempfile dev-python/backports-weakref dev-python/backports-zoneinfo dev-python/pkgutil_resolve_name # Sam James (2023-01-05) # Breaks reverse dependencies: bug #889694, bug #888579. =sys-fs/btrfs-progs-6.1.1 # Sam James (2022-12-27) # Regression in listing subvolumes (no UUIDs), bug #888549 # https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/562 =sys-fs/btrfs-progs-6.1 # Ionen Wolkens (2022-12-24) # Upstream dropped wxGTK support in >=games-emulation/pcsx2-1.7.3773, # and it now always requires Qt6. Masked given Qt6 is also masked in # Gentoo at the moment. It is recommended to use <=pcsx2-1.7.3772 for # now, but you can opt-in for testing by searching for "qtbase" in: # https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/profiles/package.mask # and package.unmask the whole list alongside pcsx2. >=games-emulation/pcsx2-1.7.3773 # Georgy Yakovlev (2022-12-19) # This version currently is not compatible with kernel build (yet) ~dev-util/bindgen-0.63.0 # Matt Turner (2022-11-16) # Packages or their dependencies have not been ported to libsoup:3.0, while # other non-slotted dependencies have been. media-gfx/gnome-photos media-sound/gnome-music # Jaco Kroon (2022-11-05) # Some potentially breaking changes here, please check the UPGRADE.txt file. # Most important: chan_sip no longer builds by default, if you've migrated to # PJSIP you should be OK and most likely you should be able to safely unmask. # For now to prevent accidental upgrades and to allow proper testing this will # be in place for minimum six months (2023-04-22). =net-misc/asterisk-20* =net-misc/asterisk-opus-20* =net-misc/asterisk-g729-20* # John Helmert III (2022-10-16) # (2022-09-18) # Unfixed root privilege escalation, bug #631552 sys-cluster/slurm # hololeap (2022-08-21) # doctest-parallel does not currently work with Setup.hs (used internally by # haskell-cabal.eclass) # See: dev-haskell/doctest-parallel # Andrew Ammerlaan (2022-08-12) # Masked for testing, depends on dev-qt/qt*:6 # Pyside6 is stuck on python3_10 for the moment being dev-python/shiboken6 dev-python/pyside6 dev-python/pyside6-tools # Jimi Huotari (2022-08-02) # Masked for testing. The split of some packages may still # change. bug #838970. >=app-editors/retext-8.0.0 dev-python/PyQt6 dev-python/PyQt6-WebEngine dev-qt/qt5compat:6 dev-qt/qtbase:6 dev-qt/qtcharts:6 dev-qt/qtdeclarative:6 dev-qt/qtimageformats:6 dev-qt/qtlocation:6 dev-qt/qtmultimedia:6 dev-qt/qtnetworkauth:6 dev-qt/qtpositioning:6 dev-qt/qtquick3d:6 dev-qt/qtquicktimeline:6 dev-qt/qtserialport:6 dev-qt/qtshadertools:6 dev-qt/qtsvg:6 dev-qt/qttools:6 dev-qt/qtwayland:6 dev-qt/qtwebchannel:6 dev-qt/qtwebengine:6 dev-qt/qtwebsockets:6 >=media-video/bino-2 # Fabian Groffen (2022-07-02) # Segfaults handling SPF validations (warn on permerror), like the # previous release, better not to trust your important mail to ~mail-mta/exim-4.96 # Sam James (2022-05-28) # GCC 9 and older no longer receive upstream support or fixes for # bugs. Please switch to a newer GCC version using gcc-config. # The lowest supported version of GCC is GCC 10. (2022-04-29) # Apparently the "b" in version means "beta". 3.24 is available, we # should update to that. #841437 ~sci-physics/bullet-3.22b # Eray Aslan (2022-01-24) # Mask experimental software =mail-mta/postfix-3.8* # James Beddek (2022-01-19) # FFmpeg 5.0 ABI/API changes break many packages. # Masking for tracker/tinderbox. Bug #831437 >=media-video/ffmpeg-5 >=media-sound/spek-0.8.5 # Brian Evans (2022-01-07) # The main consumer, phpunit, does not initiate the new timer correctly # This is likely to cause issues in tests; Unmask if using for other purposes >=dev-php/PHP_Timer-5.0 # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2021-11-23) # Does not support updated dev-java/pdfbox-2.0.24, Bug #803488 # Blocks (CVE-2018-11797, CVE-2021-{27807,27906,31811,31812}) dev-tex/pdfannotextractor # Ionen Wolkens (2021-10-09) # Vulkan beta driver branch aimed at Vulkan developers for testing # new features. Beside vulkan, it is typically behind the main branch # and may be buggier or less secure. Only unmask if really wanted. x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers:0/vulkan # Mart Raudsepp (2021-09-23) # Incompatible with c++17 abseil-cpp, no in-tree consumers yet media-libs/webrtc-audio-processing:1 # Andreas K. Hüttel (2021-09-18) # sys-devel/automake version 1.11 is EOL and is only useful for testing # old de-ANSI-fication/ansi2knr/AM_C_PROTOTYPES code. Please uninstall. sys-devel/automake:1.11 # Joonas Niilola (2021-07-29) # Upstream provided migration instructions from 2. -> 3. update, # breaks if not all at least many revdeps. #805011 for tracker bug. >=net-libs/mbedtls-3.0.0 # Michał Górny (2021-07-06) # Upstream changed license to GPL-3+ in order to deliberately cause # incompatiblity with revdep licenses. Mask until the situation # is resolved. Bug #791259. >=media-libs/libopenaptx-0.2.1 # Ulrich Müller (2021-04-20) # Version 3.15 is broken with Emacs 27.2. =app-emacs/mic-paren-3.15-r0 # Sam James (2021-03-30) # Seems to break dev-tex/culmus-latex # Masking until we can investigate & fix # bug #737406 =media-fonts/culmus-0.133-r1 # Sam James (2021-03-03) # Doesn't seem to sync clock correctly # in some cases. # bug #772998 ~net-misc/openntpd-6.8_p1 # Michał Górny (2020-11-10) # This old Kodi version requires vulnerable dev-python/pillow # and prevents users from upgrading. Masked for the time being. # Bug #729672. media-plugins/kodi-game-libretro-nestopia media-plugins/kodi-game-libretro-dosbox # Sam James (2020-10-05) # Masked for testing. New major versions of Guile # often break reverse dependencies. # Guile in Gentoo is not slotted, so let's be cautious. # bug #705554, bug #689408. >=dev-scheme/guile-3.0.4 # Matt Turner (2019-09-01) # TeXmacs is the only remaining package in tree that requires guile-1.8, which # is unsupported upstream. A TeXmacs port to Guile-2 has been in progress for a # few years. Bug #436400 app-office/texmacs (2018-10-07) # Masked for more testing especially of reverse-deps. # ogre 1.11/1.12 breakage: bug #834468 # ogre 2.x breakage: bug #740424 >=dev-games/ogre-1.11.2 # Andreas K. Hüttel (2018-09-11) # Mask transition ebuilds that were needed only for (2017-10-31) # There are multiple unresolved upstream issues with >=jabref-bin-4.0 (#636036). # If you still would like to use this version, please report any issues to # upstream. >=app-text/jabref-bin-4.0 # Michał Górny (2017-05-22) # for Maciej S. Szmigiero # Any version above 5.100.138 breaks b43 driver in various ways. # Also, b43 wiki page says to use 5.100.138. Bug #541080. >=sys-firmware/b43-firmware-6.30.163.46 # Andreas K. Hüttel (2017-05-21) # (and others, updated later) # These old versions of toolchain packages (binutils, gcc, glibc) are no # longer officially supported and are not suitable for general use. Using # these packages can result in build failures (and possible breakage) for # many packages, and may leave your system vulnerable to known security # exploits. # If you still use one of these old toolchain packages, please upgrade (and # switch the compiler / the binutils) ASAP. If you need them for a specific # (isolated) use case, feel free to unmask them on your system. (2017-01-07) # This package has some dangerous quality and security issues, but # people may still find it useful. It is masked to prevent accidental # use. 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