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More up-to-date versions of these packages # are available in ::haskell. # Removal on 2022-09-19. app-portage/fquery dev-games/goatee dev-haskell/megaparsec dev-haskell/parser-combinators dev-haskell/megaparsec-tests dev-haskell/hspec-megaparsec dev-haskell/neat-interpolation dev-haskell/stack dev-haskell/abstract-deque-tests dev-haskell/aeson-diff dev-haskell/annotated-wl-pprint dev-haskell/authenticate-oauth dev-haskell/base-prelude dev-haskell/base-unicode-symbols dev-haskell/casa-client dev-haskell/casa-types dev-haskell/cipher-aes128 dev-haskell/concurrent-extra dev-haskell/configurator dev-haskell/contravariant-extras dev-haskell/convertible dev-haskell/cpphs dev-haskell/crypto-pubkey-types dev-haskell/cryptohash dev-haskell/cryptohash-cryptoapi dev-haskell/data-default-instances-base dev-haskell/dns dev-haskell/drbg dev-haskell/edit-distance-vector dev-haskell/either dev-haskell/errorcall-eq-instance dev-haskell/filelock dev-haskell/filemanip dev-haskell/filepattern dev-haskell/fsnotify dev-haskell/ghc-lib-parser dev-haskell/ghc-lib-parser-ex dev-haskell/githash dev-haskell/groupoids dev-haskell/groups dev-haskell/haddock dev-haskell/haddock-api dev-haskell/hashable-time dev-haskell/hashtables dev-haskell/haskell-src-meta dev-haskell/hdbc dev-haskell/hdbc-odbc dev-haskell/hdbc-postgresql dev-haskell/hdbc-sqlite3 dev-haskell/hi-file-parser dev-haskell/hlint dev-haskell/hpack dev-haskell/hslogger dev-haskell/hsopenssl dev-haskell/hsyaml-aeson dev-haskell/http-common dev-haskell/http-download dev-haskell/http-streams dev-haskell/hxt dev-haskell/hxt-charproperties dev-haskell/hxt-regex-xmlschema dev-haskell/hxt-unicode dev-haskell/infer-license dev-haskell/interpolate dev-haskell/io-streams dev-haskell/io-streams-haproxy dev-haskell/iwlib dev-haskell/js-flot dev-haskell/js-jquery dev-haskell/keys dev-haskell/lens-aeson dev-haskell/memotrie dev-haskell/mintty dev-haskell/missingh dev-haskell/mustache dev-haskell/newtype-generics dev-haskell/open-browser dev-haskell/openssl-streams dev-haskell/optparse-simple dev-haskell/pantry dev-haskell/parallel-io dev-haskell/path-io dev-haskell/pointed dev-haskell/polyparse dev-haskell/prettyclass dev-haskell/project-template dev-haskell/readable dev-haskell/rebase dev-haskell/refact dev-haskell/regex-applicative-text dev-haskell/regex-compat-tdfa dev-haskell/regex-pcre dev-haskell/rerebase dev-haskell/rfc5051 dev-haskell/rio-orphans dev-haskell/rio-prettyprint dev-haskell/rsa dev-haskell/selective dev-haskell/snap-core dev-haskell/snap-server dev-haskell/tar-conduit dev-haskell/template-haskell-compat-v0208 dev-haskell/text-metrics dev-haskell/th-expand-syns dev-haskell/th-orphans dev-haskell/th-reify-many dev-haskell/threads dev-haskell/vector-builder dev-haskell/vector-instances dev-haskell/weigh dev-haskell/wreq dev-haskell/xhtml dev-haskell/zlib-bindings dev-util/shelltestrunner net-mail/list-remote-forwards net-mail/mailbox-count net-misc/haeredes net-misc/hath dev-util/bnfc # hololeap (2022-08-21) # doctest-parallel does not currently work with Setup.hs (used internally by # haskell-cabal.eclass) # See: dev-haskell/doctest-parallel # John Helmert III (2022-08-16) # Multiple vulnerabilities, unmaintained upstream, EAPI 6. Removal in 30 # days, bug #830138 media-gfx/gif2apng # John Helmert III (2022-08-16) # Vulnerable, unmaintained upstream, maintainer says it's time for it to # go. Removal in 30 days, bug #769758 www-servers/thttpd # John Helmert III (2022-08-14) # Vulnerable, unmaintained in Gentoo, EAPI6. Removal in 30 days, # bug #772209 app-crypt/keybase # John Helmert III (2022-08-14) # Remote code execution vulnerability, dead upstream. Removal in 30 # days, bug #791004. x11-terms/mrxvt # John Helmert III (2022-08-14) # Dead upstream, vulnerable, no revdeps except a usedep. Removal in 30 # days, bug #618000 media-libs/libaacplus # John Helmert III (2022-08-14) # Many vulnerabilities (including code execution and root privilege # escalation), effectively unmaintained. Removal in 30 days, bugs # #631552, #790296, #842789 sys-cluster/slurm # John Helmert III (2022-08-14) # Vulnerable and unmaintained for years, many open bugs, no revdeps, # EAPI 6. Removal in 30 days, bug 733354 net-misc/calico-cni-plugin net-misc/calicoctl # Sam James (2022-08-14) # Removes MSVC functionality which some packages are relying on - they # need time to adapt to upstream setuptools changes. # bug #865183. =dev-python/setuptools-65.0.0 # John Helmert III (2022-08-14) # Vulnerable and unmaintained for years, many open bugs, no revdeps # Removal in 30 days, bug #631140 net-analyzer/smokeping # Andrew Ammerlaan # 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 # Michał Górny (2022-08-11) # Niche library with no revdeps left. Last commit in 2015. # Removal on 2022-09-10. Bug #864889. dev-libs/libdivsufsort # John Helmert III (2022-08-10) # Root privilege escalation vulnerability, many open bugs. Removal in 30 # days, bug 630752 net-analyzer/sguil-sensor # John Helmert III (2022-08-10) # Root privilege escalation vulnerability, unmaintained since the git # transition, multiple open bugs. Removal in 30 days, bug 630752 app-admin/logcheck # Matthew Smith (2022-08-09) # Please update to Erlang/OTP 24 or 25. Removal in 30 days. # See following link for breaking changes: # https://www.erlang.org/patches/otp-24.0#incompatibilities (2022-08-06) # superseeded by sys-apps/baselayout, removal in 30 days. bug #836114 sys-apps/baselayout-prefix # Jimi Huotari (2022-08-02) # Masked for testing. The split of some packages may still # change. bug #838970. dev-python/PyQt6 dev-python/PyQt6-WebEngine dev-qt/qt5compat:6 dev-qt/qtbase:6 dev-qt/qtdeclarative:6 dev-qt/qtlocation:6 dev-qt/qtmultimedia: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 # Sam James (2022-08-02) # Multiple rendering/font issues reported: bug #844115, bug #851141. =app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.56.1 # Marek Szuba (2022-08-01) # Suricata-5 has reached end of life upstream. Please switch to major version 6. # Removal in 30 days (Bug #) (2022-07-31) # No updates since 2010, dead homepage, and incompatible with newer # sci-libs/gsl. Bug #862486. Removal on 2022-08-31. sci-chemistry/numbat # Marc Schiffbauer (2022-07-30) # No update since 2016, compilation and build system # errors # Bugs #637150, #686078, #733066, #733068, #828986, #854744 # removal in 30 days (2022-08-29) app-misc/zygrib # David Seifert (2022-07-28) # Unmaintained, EOL upstream, QA and build issues, EAPI 6. # Bug #682346, #844592, removal on 2022-08-27. app-crypt/kbfs # Sam James (2022-07-26) # Fails to build with ffmpeg 5, no reverse dependencies, maintainer-needed, # and no commits upstream since 2017. Bug #834383. Removal on 2022-08-26. media-libs/libgroove # Michał Górny (2022-07-25) # aioredis has been integrated in >=dev-python/redis-py-4.2.0. # No revdeps. # Removal on 2022-08-24. Bug #860840. dev-python/aioredis # Jack Todaro (2022-07-24) # Last-rite for removal in 30 days. Has no reverse dependencies # and is unmaintained upstream. dev-haskell/bytestring-handle dev-haskell/chaselev-deque # William Hubbs (2022-07-24) # **NOTE:** Golint is deprecated and frozen # according to [this issue](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/38968). # There's no drop-in replacement for it, but tools such as # [Staticcheck](https://staticcheck.io/) # and `go vet` should be used instead. # Bug #844412 # Removal: 2022-08-23 dev-go/golint # Hans de Graaff (2022-07-16) # No longer supported upstream. Use a newer ruby version instead. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-lang/ruby:2.6 # Marek Szuba (2022-07-13) # Upstream has switched from CMake to hand-crafted Makefiles (yes, TO them), # which have seriously messed up dependency handling and trigger several # QA violations in Gentoo. Mask until all of the latter have been resolved # and the jumbo patch fixing the former has been thoroughly tested. >media-gfx/gmic-3.1.0 # 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 # Ulrich Müller (2022-06-30) # Pretest versions, masked for testing. ~app-editors/emacs-28.1.90 ~app-editors/emacs-28.1.91 ~app-editors/emacs-28.1.92 # 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 # Alfredo Tupone (2022-04-27) # New release of janestreet packages need to tested dev-ml/sexplib0:0/0.15 dev-ml/sexplib:0/0.15 dev-ml/base:0/0.15 dev-ml/stdio:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_sexp_conv:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_enumerate:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_compare:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_hash:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_cold:0/0.15 dev-ml/parsexp:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_base:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_fields_conv:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_here:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_let:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_sexp_message:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_sexp_value:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_assert:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_optcomp:0/0.15 dev-ml/time_now:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_inline_test:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_bench:0/0.15 dev-ml/splittable_random:0/0.15 dev-ml/base_quickcheck:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_bin_prot:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_custom_printf:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_disable_unused_warnings:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_expect:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_fixed_literal:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_log:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_module_timer:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_optional:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_stable:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_string:0/0.15 dev-ml/typerep:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_typerep_conv:0/0.15 dev-ml/variantslib:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_variants_conv:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_jane:0/0.15 dev-ml/int_repr:0/0.15 dev-ml/base_bigstring:0/0.15 dev-ml/ppx_js_style:0/0.15 dev-ml/core:0/0.15 dev-ml/core_kernel:0/0.15 dev-ml/sexp_pretty:0/0.15 dev-ml/expect_test_helpers_core:0/0.15 dev-ml/timezone:0/0.15 dev-ml/core_unix:0/0.15 dev-ml/textutils_kernel:0/0.15 dev-ml/textutils:0/0.15 dev-ml/async_kernel:0/0.15 dev-ml/protocol_version_header:0/0.15 dev-ml/async_rpc_kernel:0/0.15 dev-ml/async_unix:0/0.15 dev-ml/async:0/0.15 dev-ml/async_extra:0/0.15 dev-ml/core_bench:0/0.15 dev-ml/patience_diff:0/0.15 dev-util/patdiff:0/0.15 =dev-ml/alcotest-1.6.0* # 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 # 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 (2022-08-20) # Dev channel releases are only for people who # are developers or want more experimental features # and accept a more unstable release. >=www-client/chromium-106 # 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. (2022-01-24) # 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* # 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 # 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 # 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* =dev-libs/openssl-compat-1.1.1* =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 # 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 # 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 (2017-10-31) # 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