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Loper (2019-07-01) ## # Masked for removal in 30 days. Doesn't work ## # with new libfoo. Upstream dead, gtk-1, smells ## # funny. (bug #987654) ## app-misc/some-package #--- END OF EXAMPLES --- # Marek Szuba (2022-04-14) # Singularity has been renamed upstream to Apptainer. Therefore, up-to-date # versions of this software are now available as app-containers/apptainer. sys-cluster/singularity # Sam James (2022-04-13) # 2.35.2 was a quick release to mitigate a security issue (bug #838127), but # introduces problems of its own with e.g. Portage. bug #838223. Pending # investigation both on the Portage side and potentially upstream (as there's # at least some UX issues with 2.35.2+ with the new "safe directory" mechanism). # Earlier versions are still safe as long as you do not use git commands # on a local repository controlled by a user you do not trust. =dev-vcs/git-2.35.2 =dev-vcs/git-2.35.3 # Conrad Kostecki (2022-04-13) # Abandoned by upstream, does not work correctly anymore. # Removal on 2022-06-13. Bug #832431. x11-plugins/pidgin-telegram # Michał Górny (2022-04-13) # Unmaintained. Last release in 2017, the Gentoo ebuild has not been # even bumped to it. Requires old dev-lang/spidermonkey that requires # Python 2.7. # Removal on 2022-05-13. Bug #838139. media-video/gxine # Hans de Graaff (2022-04-12) # dev-ruby/nokogumbo is now part of dev-ruby/nokogiri and nokogiri # versions still supporting a separate nokogumbo have known security # issues. nokogumbo's only reverse dependency is dev-ruby/sanitize:5, # but a newer slot is available. dev-ruby/nokogumbo dev-ruby/sanitize:5 # Michał Górny (2022-04-11) # Tests are broken once again. Last activity in Jan 2020, last release # in Aug 2019. No revdeps. # Removal on 2022-05-11. Bug #832317. dev-python/ctypescrypto # Matt Turner (2022-04-10) # Dead package upstream. Uses GTK+ 2. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2022-05-10 x11-misc/gcolor2 # Matt Turner (2022-04-10) # Dead package upstream. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2022-05-10 net-misc/vinagre net-misc/vino # Matt Turner (2022-04-10) # Dead package upstream (last release in 2004). No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2022-05-10 net-misc/grdesktop # Matt Turner (2022-04-10) # Dead package upstream. EAPI 5. Only reverse dependency is gnome-extra/gnome-utils. # Removal on 2022-05-10 gnome-extra/gnome-search-tool # Matt Turner (2022-04-10) # Dead package upstream. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2022-05-10 gnome-extra/filemanager-actions # Matt Turner (2022-04-10) # Dead package upstream. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2022-05-10 app-office/pinpoint # Matt Turner (2022-04-10) # Dead package upstream. Only reverse dependency is gnome-extra/gnome-utils. # Removal on 2022-05-10 app-admin/gnome-system-log # Matt Turner (2022-04-10) # Dead (meta)packagesupstream. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2022-05-10 gnome-extra/gnome-utils # David Seifert (2022-04-10) # Unmaintained, last release upstream 16 years ago, Fedora dropped it, # relies on sys-libs/db, low quality port to EAPI 6, removal on 2022-05-10. net-p2p/syrep # Michał Górny (2022-04-10) # Last release in 2016. Last git commit in 2020. No revdeps. # Removal on 2022-05-10. Bug #837641. dev-python/repoze-sphinx-autointerface # Michał Górny (2022-04-09) # A test runner specific to zope packages that was never really used # (only as a mistaken test-dep). No revdeps left. # Removal on 2022-05-09. Bug #837530. dev-python/zope-testrunner # Matt Turner (2022-04-06) # Dead package upstream. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2022-05-06 dev-util/nemiver # David Seifert (2022-04-06) # Unsupported branches, no consumers left, removal on 2023-01-01. sys-devel/automake:1.13 sys-devel/automake:1.15 # Sergey Popov (2022-04-05) # Upstream is dead long time ago # SRC_URI and HOMEPAGE are gone(bug #680362) # Has file collision with dev-util/bcc(bug #834093) # Suggested modern replacement is incorporated in dev-util/bcc # Removal in 30 days app-misc/ttysnoop # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2022-04-04) # Last upstream activities in 2009. # Fails to compile with java 11 or higher (bug #831262). # Removal in 30 days. net-misc/jrdesktop # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2022-04-03) # Java library without consumers. # Multiple vulnerabilities (bug #719146). # Removal in 30 days. dev-java/log4j # Matt Turner (2022-03-27) # Dead package. Homepage doesn't resolve. Unmaintained in Gentoo for at # least 6 years. # Removal on 2022-05-02 app-pda/gtkpod # Ulrich Müller (2022-04-01) # Illegal instruction errors seen by several users. # Masked for testing. (bug #835930) >=net-im/zoom-5.10 # Matt Turner (2022-03-27) # Dead package. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2022-04-27 dev-util/fix-la-relink-command # Matt Turner (2022-03-27) # Dead package. No reverse dependencies since 2017. # Removal on 2022-04-27 dev-libs/gtx # Matt Turner (2022-03-27) # Dead package. See https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2014/10/30/appdata-tools-is-dead/ # Bug #680552 # Removal on 2022-04-27 dev-util/appdata-tools # Matt Turner (2022-03-27) # GNOME 2 era packages. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2022-04-27 dev-perl/gnome2-canvas dev-perl/Gtk2-Ex-PodViewer dev-perl/Gtk2-Ex-PrintDialog dev-perl/Gtk2-Ex-Simple-List dev-perl/Gtk2-ImageView # Conrad Kostecki (2022-03-27) # Long abandoned upstream, multiple bugs open, # no other major distro carries this anymore and # depends on deprecated jabber-base. # Bug #632622, #655566, #716850, removal on 2022-04-27. net-im/gg-transport # David Seifert (2022-03-27) # Long abandoned upstreams, segfaults, bunch of tests fail, # no other major distro carries this anymore. # Bug #631320, #740484, #830090, #836278, removal on 2022-04-26. media-libs/libtaginfo media-sound/xnoise # Piotr Karbowski (2022-03-25) # Abandoned upstream, officialy limited to kernel 5.6, # no longer builds with kernel >=5.14. Use kernel's # CONFIG_USB_RTL8152 and CONFIG_USB_USBNET since 5.13. # Removal on 2022-04-25. net-misc/realtek-r8152 # Marc Schiffbauer (2022-03-22) # Unmaintained upstream. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2022-04-23. dev-libs/bareos-fastlzlib # Sam James (2022-03-22) # Abandoned upstream (archived many years ago), fails # to build with modern versions of gnupg, and is # stuck on EAPI 5. No reverse dependencies. # bug #835388, bug #828948, bug #733010. # Maintainers welcome to take over. # Removal on 2022-04-22. app-crypt/seahorse-sharing # David Seifert (2022-03-21) # Unmaintained, EAPI 5, no revdeps in tree. # Bug #786093, removal on 2022-04-20. dev-java/freehep-graphicsbase dev-java/freehep-io dev-java/glassfish-interceptor-api dev-java/gnu-classpath dev-java/invokebinder dev-java/java-apicheck dev-java/jboss-marshalling-river dev-java/jboss-marshalling-serial # David Seifert (2022-03-21) # EAPI 5, last release 15 years ago, QA permission issues, no other # distro packages this. # Bug #553404, #835364, removal on 2022-04-20. media-video/mplayer-sh # David Seifert (2022-03-20) # Added and then left unmaintained by author, no revdeps in tree, # stuck on kernel 4.19, distribution model unlikely a good fit for # Gentoo, QA issues, blocks automake-1.15 removal, build issues. # Bug #725746, #728154, #835693, removal on 2022-04-19. sys-cluster/lustre # David Seifert (2022-03-20) # Mask gcc-8 branch (ended upstream support). Please switch # to a fresher gcc branch. (2022-03-19) # Unmaintained, no revdeps in tree, not even on latest version, EAPI 5, # typical 'webapp' smell, last upstream release more than 9 years ago. # Bug #402849, #513594, #690042, #828702, removal on 2022-04-18. sci-biology/GBrowse # Michał Górny (2022-03-18) # The new version breaks building docs w/o Internet access (because it # tries to fetch and install all dependencies locally). ~dev-python/jaraco-packaging-9.0.0 # John Helmert III (2022-03-13) # Arti is not a production-ready Tor client. According to upstream, "do # not use this program yet if you seriously need anonymity, privacy, # security, or stability." Feel free to unmask if this is not a # necessity. net-p2p/arti # Stephan Hartmann (2022-04-01) # Dev channel releases are only for people who # are developers or want more experimental features # and accept a more unstable release. >=www-client/chromium-102 # Anton Fischl (2022-02-23) # Version 2.5.* is not meant for production according to upstream =app-backup/burp-2.5* # Maciej Barć (2022-02-20) # Masked for testing, builds and passes tests but randomly segfaults, # meaningless backtrace, debugging (flags, symbols) do not help >app-shells/scsh-0.6.9 # Zoltan Puskas (2022-02-18) # Multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-{23803,23804,23946,23947}) # 5.X series is masked to avoid accidental use, but it's kept for # industrial users who are in the process of migrating to the new # format of the 6.X series. (2022-02-11) # Not usable anymore # Removal after 2022-06-01. Bug #833144. x11-misc/i855crt # Jonas Stein (2022-02-09) # Upstream is 404, open bugs, not maintained. # Removal after 2022-05-01. Bug #832954. x11-misc/sisctrl # Jonas Stein (2022-02-08) # Not maintained, open bugs, upstream outdated. # Removal after 2022-07-01. Bug #832953. x11-misc/easystroke # 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-5.0 # Georgy Yakovlev (2022-01-15) # Last branch update happened ~ 12 month ago. # Maximum kernel supported is 5.9, which we no longer package. # So 5.10 LTS users can't use it. only 4.x LTS and 5.4 LTS. # ebuild is effectively unmaintained/untested, so is upstream branch. # Removal date: sometime around June 2022 # Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/830020 ~sys-fs/zfs-0.8.6 ~sys-fs/zfs-kmod-0.8.6 # 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 # Georgy Yakovlev (2021-12-14) # AT&T decided to roll back community changes in March 2020 # for version 2020.x.x # This version is no longer maintained. # New version is maintained at https://github.com/ksh93/ksh # and is available as app-shells/ksh-1.0.0_beta1 at time of writing. ~app-shells/ksh-2020.0.0 # Bernd Waibel (2021-12-07) # Masked for testing ~sci-libs/vtk-9.1.0 # Sam James (2021-12-01) # OSL 12 is a development release (for now). # Doesn't work with LLVM 13 yet; mask to help # Blender compatibility (no mixed LLVM versions). =media-libs/osl-1.12* # 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 # Fabian Groffen (2021-10-03) # Masked for erratic behaviour # https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2813 =mail-mta/exim-4.95-r1 # Mart Raudsepp (2021-09-24) # Experimental split media-sound/pulseaudio packages, bug #536780. media-libs/libpulse media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon >=media-sound/pulseaudio-15.0-r100 # 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 # Mart Raudsepp (2021-09-15) # New major parallel-installable release which needs special care to not # end up loaded into the same process together with the earlier libsoup ABI. # Migration to it is expected for GNOME 42, NOT to be unmasked with GNOME 41. net-libs/libsoup:3.0 # Thomas Deutschmann (2021-09-07) # Masked while being tested and reverse deps aren't fully compatible # bug #797325. =dev-libs/openssl-3.0* # Craig Andrews (2021-09-20) # Requires OpenSSL >= 3.0.0 # Masked until dev-libs/openssl-3.0* is unmasked =dev-libs/gost-engine-3.0* # 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 # Bernard Cafarelli (2021-06-04) # Alpha versions of fetchmail 7 # Add support for OAUTH2 for those needing it =net-mail/fetchmail-7.0.0_alpha* # Michał Górny (2021-05-31) # Requires removed media-libs/opencv version. (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 # Lars Wendler (2021-02-15) # Mask development versions now that they were bumped... =net-misc/kea-1.9* # 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 # Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (2020-09-01) # Mismatched version (bug #695022). Masked to force upgrade to 2.0.4_pre20200306162733. # (Mask should remain after ebuilds are deleted, until 2021-03-01 or # until new upstream release with proper versioning.) ~app-i18n/scim-sunpinyin-3.0.0_rc1 # Lars Wendler (2019-11-14) # Breaks archives containing relative paths # when being called with --no-absolute-filenames # bug #700020 =app-arch/cpio-2.13 # 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 (2017-12-17) # Georgy Yakovlev (2021-10-16) # Java 11+ is not yet fully supported on Gentoo. Packages cannot depend # on it so these virtuals are not yet required. If you wish to use # Java 11+ then install openjdk-(jdk|jre)-bin directly. # bug #697014 virtual/jdk:17 virtual/jre:17 # Nicolas Bock (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. See bugs 603346 and 604998 for more information. app-admin/amazon-ec2-init # Robin H. Johnson (2014-08-04) # Masked for testing, presently fails upstream testsuite: # FAIL:07:02:35 (00:00:00) db_dump/db_load(./TESTDIR.3/recd001.db:child killed: kill signal): expected 0, got 1 # FAIL:07:02:35 (00:00:00) Dump/load of ./TESTDIR.3/recd001.db failed. # FAIL:07:02:35 (00:00:00) db_verify_preop: expected 0, got 1 =sys-libs/db-6.1* =sys-libs/db-6.2* =sys-libs/db-18.1* # Mike Gilbert (2014-03-04) # Dev channel releases are only for people who are developers or want more # experimental features and accept a more unstable release. www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins:unstable # Diego E. Pettenò (2009-01-03) # These packages are not supposed to be merged directly, instead # please use sys-devel/crossdev to install them. dev-util/mingw64-runtime sys-libs/newlib dev-embedded/avr-libc