#################################################################### # # When you add an entry to the top of this file, add your name, the date, and # an explanation of why something is getting masked. Please be extremely # careful not to commit atoms that are not valid, as it can cause large-scale # breakage, especially if it ends up in the daily snapshot. # ## Example: ## ## # Dev E. Loper (28 Jun 2012) ## # Masking these versions until we can get the ## # v4l stuff to work properly again ## =media-video/mplayer-0.90_pre5 ## =media-video/mplayer-0.90_pre5-r1 # # - Best last rites (removal) practices - # Include the following info: # a) reason for masking # b) bug # for the removal (and yes you should have one) # c) date of removal (either the date or "in x days") # ## Example: ## ## # Dev E. Loper (23 May 2015) ## # 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 --- # Aaron W. Swenson (25 Oct 2018) # Fails to build against up to date OpenSSL library (Bug 663966). No longer # supported upstream. Use dev-db/pgadmin4. # Masked for removal on 2018-11-24, bug #669650. dev-db/pgadmin3 # Ulrich Müller (23 Oct 2018) # Depends on (22 Oct 2018) # Breaks dev-libs/gobject-introspection and its consumers # See #669278 =xfce-base/xfconf-4.13.6 # Pacho Ramos (21 Oct 2018) # Lots of pending bugs for years, this needs a dedicated maintainer that # fixes them: bug #354157, #354639, #398075, #398077, #417375, #499654, # #539358, #591682, #625798, #639912, #662316, #664270... # Removal in a month. media-gfx/splashutils media-gfx/bootsplash-themes media-gfx/splash-themes-gentoo media-gfx/splash-themes-livecd media-gfx/splash-themes-livedvd # Andreas K. Hüttel (20 Oct 2018) # Fails to build with glibc-2.27, bug 648620. No reverse # dependencies. Removal in 30 days. dev-tcltk/ck # Matt Turner (16 Oct 2018) # Unmaintained. Unused. Removal in 30 days. Bug #668826 media-libs/libomxil-bellagio # Virgil Dupras (15 Oct 2018) # Unmaintained, no revdep. Removal in 30 days. Bug #650048 dev-python/django-extensions dev-python/shortuuid dev-python/fexpect # Sobhan Mohammadpour (15 Oct 2018) # Masked for testing. sys-apps/bubblewrap # Thomas Deutschmann (12 Oct 2018) # EOL and has known vulnerabilities. Please move to # Firefox 60 or newer if you can. (12 Oct 2018) # Unmaintained, no revdep. Removal in 30 days. Bug #645384 dev-python/jenkinsapi # Virgil Dupras (12 Oct 2018) # Dead upstream, unmaintained, no revdep. Removal in 30 days. # Bug #285169 dev-python/twill dev-python/flask-testing # Virgil Dupras (11 Oct 2018) # Dead upstream, unmaintained, no revdep. Removal in 30 days. # Bug #659532 net-libs/libgcal # Virgil Dupras (11 Oct 2018) # Unmaintained, no revdep. Removal in 30 days. # Bug #661554 Bug #661552 dev-libs/MicroJSON dev-libs/UTF8Strings # Virgil Dupras (10 Oct 2018) # Unmaintained, no revdep. Removal in 30 days. # Bug #643536 dev-python/stormpath # Virgil Dupras (10 Oct 2018) # Dead upstream, depends on broken package. Removal in 30 days. # Bug #620098 dev-python/flask-restless # Sergei Trofimovich (09 Oct 2018) # Upstream is not actively maintained. Needs a port to mupdf-1.14. app-text/fbpdf # Davide Pesavento (08 Oct 2018) # Ebuild is not ready, major packaging changes required. Bug 668014. >=dev-python/PyQt5-5.11 # Virgil Dupras (07 Oct 2018) # Masked for removal, along with orphans, because it's unmaintained # and vulnerable. Bug #629270 app-office/openerp dev-python/pywebdav # Andreas Sturmlechner (07 Oct 2018) # Masked for more testing especially of reverse-deps. >=dev-games/ogre-1.11.2 # Mart Raudsepp (06 Oct 2018) # Netspeed applet moved into mate-base/mate-applets since v1.14, # use that instead. Bug #667910 net-analyzer/mate-netspeed # Thomas Deutschmann (06 Oct 2018) # Outdated and vulnerable snapshot; libav-12.3 is the better # version for now =media-video/libav-13_pre20171219 # Virgil Dupras (30 Sep 2018) # Dead upstream, unmaintained, no revdeps. # Removal in 30 days, bug #611614 dev-python/recaptcha-client # Michał Górny (30 Sep 2018) # Poor quality NIH ebuilds with multiple issues and lack of test suites. # They do not support Python 3 (even if somebody claimed otherwise, # completely ignoring all the errors during install phase), depend # on old Twisted packages and have no reverse dependencies in ::gentoo. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #667354. dev-python/python-application dev-python/python-cjson dev-python/python-eventlib dev-python/python-gnutls dev-python/python-msrplib dev-python/python-xcaplib # Matt Turner (29 Sep 2018) # Removal in 30 days, bug #576334 app-eselect/eselect-mesa # Michał Górny (24 Sep 2018) # Apparently breaks sys-devel/gcc. Bug #666954. =dev-util/debugedit-4.14.2 # Mike Gilbert (16 Sep 2018) # Dev channel releases are only for people who are developers or want more # experimental features and accept a more unstable release. >=www-client/chromium-71 # Andreas K. Hüttel (11 Sep 2018) # Mask transition ebuilds that were needed only for (1 Sep 2018) # Mask 0.7.0 and 1.0.1 for the time being until a compatible LLVM version # made it into the tree, bug #665192 ~dev-lang/julia-0.7.0 ~dev-lang/julia-1.0.1 # Bernard Cafarelli (20 Aug 2018) # Requires >=dev-libs/openssl-1.1.0 >=net-misc/nextcloud-client-2.5.0_beta1 # Bernard Cafarelli (13 Aug 2018) # Beta release with new features, masked for testing =app-text/tesseract-4.0.0_beta* # Michał Górny (01 Aug 2018) # Multiprocessing versions of gemato. They are known to hang on some # users, so let's keep them masked until somebody figures out what's # wrong. Bug #647964. ~app-portage/gemato-14.0m ~app-portage/gemato-9999m # Mart Raudsepp (16 Jul 2018) # Parallel-installable old versions with no remaining consumers # in main tree. Use applications ported to wxGTK:3.0 and # wxpython:3.0 instead. # Please keep this package.mask entry until at least 16th Oct 2018 # for extra notification of the unmerge need. Bug #661284 x11-libs/wxGTK:2.8 dev-python/wxpython:2.8 # Kent Fredric (10 Jul 2018) # Perl 5.28 Staging block =dev-lang/perl-5.28.0 =virtual/perl-Attribute-Handlers-1.10.0 =virtual/perl-B-Debug-1.260.0 =virtual/perl-CPAN-2.200.0 =virtual/perl-Carp-1.500.0 =virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.76.0 =virtual/perl-Data-Dumper-2.170.0 =virtual/perl-Devel-PPPort-3.400.0 =virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-6.10.0 =virtual/perl-Encode-2.970.0 =virtual/perl-Exporter-5.730.0 =virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280.230 =virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Constant-0.250.0 =virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install-2.140.0 =virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.340.0 =virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.390.0 =virtual/perl-File-Path-2.150.0 =virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.740.0 =virtual/perl-Filter-Simple-0.950.0 =virtual/perl-Getopt-Long-2.500.0 =virtual/perl-I18N-LangTags-0.430.0 =virtual/perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.390.0 =virtual/perl-IO-1.390.0 =virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd-1.0.0 =virtual/perl-JSON-PP-2.970.10 =virtual/perl-Locale-Maketext-1.290.0 =virtual/perl-Math-BigInt-FastCalc-0.500.600 =virtual/perl-Math-BigInt-1.999.811 =virtual/perl-Math-BigRat-0.261.300 =virtual/perl-Net-Ping-2.620.0 =virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.500.0 =virtual/perl-Socket-2.27.0 =virtual/perl-Storable-3.80.0 =virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.420.0 =virtual/perl-Test-Simple-1.302.133 =virtual/perl-Test-1.310.0 =virtual/perl-Time-HiRes-1.975.900 =virtual/perl-Time-Piece-1.320.400 =virtual/perl-Unicode-Collate-1.250.0 =virtual/perl-Unicode-Normalize-1.260.0 =virtual/perl-XSLoader-0.300.0 =virtual/perl-bignum-0.490.0 =virtual/perl-if-0.60.800 =virtual/perl-libnet-3.110.0 =virtual/perl-podlators-4.100.0 =virtual/perl-threads-shared-1.580.0 =virtual/perl-threads-2.220.0 =virtual/perl-version-0.992.300 # Mart Raudsepp (16 Jun 2018) # No upstream (website disappeared), no upstream plugin maintainer, # and pretty much a fringe format anyway. # Please keep this package.mask entry until at least 16th Sep 2018 for # extra notification of the deprecation and replacement. Bug #658194 media-plugins/gst-plugins-schroedinger # Brian Evans (14 Jun 2018) # Mask new php pre-releases for initial testing dev-lang/php:7.3 virtual/httpd-php:7.3 # Mike Pagano (30 May 2018) # Masking due to bad commit in the networking stack. =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.14.46 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.9.104 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.134 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.14.46 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.9.104 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.4.134 # Kent Fredric (27 May 2018) # Subject to Man-in-the-middle security bypass vulnerability. # Retained in tree only for users who need older versions # for compatibility reasons. # Bug: #623942 (25 May 2018) # New package. Needs to interact with media-libs/mesa and # x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers. Work in progress. media-libs/libglvnd # Aaron Bauman (30 Apr 2018) # Masked for testing =dev-libs/libressl-2.7* =dev-libs/libressl-2.8* # Alexis Ballier (21 Apr 2018) # Needs porting of revdeps # See: https://bugs.gentoo.org/653678 >=media-video/ffmpeg-4.0 # Brian Evans (20 Apr 2018) # Likely to break a lot of software # Masked for initial testing >=dev-db/mysql-connector-c++-8.0.0 # Jeroen Roovers (6 Apr 2018) # Requires >=dev-libs/openssl-1.1.0 =net-libs/nodejs-10* =net-libs/nodejs-11* # Tony Vroon (24 Mar 2018) # This is a vulnerable version of Asterisk and should not be used except # to troubleshoot a purported memory leak in the 11.25.3 release. # Bug 629682. =net-misc/asterisk-11.25.1 # Michał Górny (20 Mar 2018) # Poorly tested version bump followed by a series of quick hacks # that do not make it any more working. Bug #651030. >=sys-devel/distcc-3.3 # Eray Aslan (08 Feb 2018) # Mask experimental software =mail-mta/postfix-3.4* # Eray Aslan (22 Jan 2018) # Vulnerable - see https://bugs.gentoo.org/630684 # Please migrate to cyrus-imapd-3.0 releases =net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.5* # Patrice Clement (18 Jan 2018) # mpv >= 0.28.0 requires currently masked ffmpeg >= 4.0. >=media-video/mpv-0.28.0 # Thomas Beierlein (23 Dec 2017) # To adapt to changed version naming by upstream # (pcb-yyyymmdd to pcb-x.y.z) we move the ebuild to # pcb-0_pyyyymmdd and mask >=pcb-20000000. # Do not remove the mask until newer version gets stable >=sci-electronics/pcb-20000000 # James Le Cuirot (17 Dec 2017) # Java 9+ 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 9+ then install oracle-(jdk|jre)-bin or openjdk(-bin) directly. virtual/jdk:9 virtual/jre:9 virtual/jdk:11 virtual/jre:11 # Andreas K. Hüttel (22 Oct 2017) # Broken with recent Perl (5.26) and not used by anything # in the Gentoo repository. Please uninstall. sys-devel/autoconf:2.59 sys-devel/autoconf:2.61 sys-devel/autoconf:2.62 sys-devel/autoconf:2.63 sys-devel/autoconf:2.65 sys-devel/autoconf:2.67 sys-devel/autoconf:2.68 # Andreas K. Hüttel (18 Oct 2017) # sys-devel/automake versions 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 # have known security vulnerabilities, are broken with # recent Perl (>=5.26.0), and are not used by anything in # the Gentoo repository. Please uninstall. sys-devel/automake:1.4 sys-devel/automake:1.5 sys-devel/automake:1.6 sys-devel/automake:1.7 sys-devel/automake:1.8 # Kent Fredric (11 Oct 2017) # This package should now be provided entirely by dev-lang/perl, # stable perl 5.24 provides Unicode-Collate-1.140.0 # testing perl 5.26 provides Unicode-Collate-1.190.0 # This should only be unmasked if you're locking to perl-5.24 and need # a newer version of virtual/perl-Unicode-Collate # If you're upgrading to perl-5.26, please do: # emerge -C perl-core/Unicode-Collate # See bug #634040 (01 Oct 2017) # Mask Atom betas for testing. app-editors/atom:beta # Patrice Clement (09 Sep 2017) # Python 3 port is almost complete with version 0.6.0. Users might run into # minor bumps here and there which is why the mask is still in place for the # time being. >=dev-java/javatoolkit-0.6.0 # Gilles Dartiguelongue (04 Sep 2017) # Incompatible changes in API in Enchant 2. Bug #629838. >=app-text/enchant-2 # Gilles Dartiguelongue (2 Sep 1017) # Gnome 3.26 package mask >=app-text/libgepub-0.5 # Anthony G. Basile (27 Aug 2017) # Upstream is no longer providing public patches sys-kernel/hardened-sources # Patrice Clement (23 Aug 2017) # Packages depending on this library need to be tested first before # it is unmasked. Possibly some slotting is still needed. # Package testing tracked in bug #611022. >=dev-libs/msgpack-1.4.2 # Sébastien Fabbro (19 Aug 2017) # ipython-6 is python-3 only and causes circular dependencies # Unset python_targets_python2_7 for ipykernel and ipyparallel if needed. >=dev-python/ipython-6 # Mats Lidell (17 Aug 2017) # Masked ede and all its dependencies due to security reasons. # bug #398241 <=app-xemacs/ede-1.03-r1 <=app-xemacs/semantic-1.21 <=app-xemacs/jde-1.52 <=app-xemacs/xslt-process-1.12 <=app-xemacs/xetla-1.02 <=app-xemacs/cogre-1.02 <=app-xemacs/ecb-1.22 <=app-xemacs/xemacs-packages-all-2010.07.29 # Kent Fredric (21 Jul 2017) # Masked due to serious regression that introduces widespread data # corruption when storing data in blobs. Masked, because any code # that is written to use this version is now dependent on this version # and older versions will corrupt your code instead. # However, any existing packages should not use this version. # See: https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/issues/117 =dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.42.0 # Nicolas Bock (17 Jul 2017) # Keep shotwell development series masked. >=media-gfx/shotwell-0.29 # Nicolas Bock (31 Oct 2017) # 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 # Pacho Ramos (14 Jul 2017) # Randomly broken due to sys-devel/binutils-config bug (#584296). # Unmask when it is finally fixed, so people can build the package. dev-util/mutrace # Hans de Graaff (05 Jun 2017) # Bundles obsolete and vulnerable webkit version. # Upstream has stopped development and recommends using # headless mode in >=www-client/chromium-59. # Masked for removal in 90 days. Bug #589994. www-client/phantomjs dev-ruby/poltergeist # Michał Górny (22 May 2017) # 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 # Michał Górny , Andreas K. Hüttel , # Matthias Maier (21 May 2017 and later updates) # 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. (20 May 2017) # Old versions of CUDA and their reverse dependencies. They do not # support GCC 5+, and are really old. # (updated 27 Dec 2017 with cuda < 8 because of gcc < 5 mask) (16 Feb 2017) # Old gstreamer 0.10 version, which is security vulnerable. # Use gstreamer:1.0 with media-plugins/gst-plugins-libav # instead (despite the name, it uses media-video/ffmpeg too). # Please keep this mask entry until gstreamer:0.10 is still # in tree or at least gets an affecting GLSA from bug 601354 # Bug #594878. media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg # Kent Fredric (04 Feb 2017) # Unsecure versions that have been only restored to tree # to resolve compatibility problems with mail-filter/amavisd-new # Use with caution due to these being removed for CVE-2016-1251 # Bug: #601144 # Bug: #604678 (06 Feb 2017) # Needs openssl-1.1 >=dev-libs/opencryptoki-3.6 # Michael Orlitzky (07 Jan 2017) # 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 (05 Jan 2017) # Masking for testing =app-emulation/ganeti-2.16* =app-emulation/ganeti-2.17* # Michał Górny (17 Nov 2016) # New version masked for testing. It supports source-window buffer size # over 2G but it 'currently performs 3-5% slower and has 1-2% worse # compression'. >=dev-util/xdelta-3.1.0 # Tim Harder (03 Nov 2016) # Masked for testing =sys-fs/fuse-3* =net-fs/sshfs-3* # Denis Dupeyron (12 Sep 2016) # Masked for testing, see bug #588894. =x11-misc/light-locker-1.7.0-r1 # Lars Wendler (26 Aug 2016) # Masked while being tested and reverse deps aren't fully compatible =dev-libs/openssl-1.1* # Andreas K. Hüttel (03 Apr 2016) # Can exhaust all available memory depending on task # but is made available for experts who heed this warning # as newer versions produce different output. Contact # the proxied maintainer Matthew Brewer # for questions. <=media-gfx/slic3r-1.1.9999 # James Le Cuirot (07 Feb 2016) # Masked until 2.0 final arrives, which hopefully won't depend on # commons-dbcp:0 as that requires Java 6. Note that the 2.0 in the # tree should have actually been 2.0_beta1. There are no revdeps. dev-java/jcs # Andrey Grozin (04 Jan 2016) # Needs a bump and substantial ebuild rewrite =sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414-r1 # Robin H. Johnson (04 Aug 2014) # 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* # Ulrich Müller (15 Jul 2014) # Permanently mask sys-libs/lib-compat and its reverse dependencies, # pending multiple security vulnerabilities and QA issues. # See bugs #515926 and #510960. sys-libs/lib-compat sys-libs/lib-compat-loki games-action/mutantstorm-demo games-action/phobiaii games-fps/rtcw games-fps/unreal games-strategy/heroes3 games-strategy/smac # Mikle Kolyada (27 Jun 2014) # Masked for proper testing. (Major updates in the code). ~dev-perl/PortageXS-0.2.12 # Matti Bickel (22 Apr 2014) # Masked slotted lua for testing # William Hubbs (07 Aug 2016) # Taking this mask since Mabi is retired # Rafael Martins (04 Dec 2016) # Adding Lua 5.3 to mask app-eselect/eselect-lua =dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r100 =dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r101 =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3 =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3-r1 =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3-r2 =dev-lang/lua-5.3.3 =dev-lang/lua-5.3.3-r1 # Samuli Suominen (06 Mar 2012) # Masked for testing since this is known to break nearly # every reverse dependency wrt bug 407091 >=dev-lang/lua-5.2.0 # Mike Gilbert (04 Mar 2014) # 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 # Justin Lecher (14 Oct 2013) # Seems to break all deps - API change? >=sci-libs/metis-5 # Michael Weber (17 Jul 2013) # Upstream next versions >=sys-boot/raspberrypi-firmware-1_pre # Richard Freeman (24 Mar 2013) # Contains known buffer overflows. Package generally works # but should not be fed untrusted input (eg from strangers). # Masked to ensure users are aware before they install. app-text/cuneiform # Diego E. Pettenò (03 Jan 2009) # These packages are not supposed to be merged directly, instead # please use sys-devel/crossdev to install them. dev-libs/cygwin dev-util/mingw-runtime dev-util/mingw64-runtime dev-util/w32api sys-libs/newlib dev-embedded/avr-libc # Chris Gianelloni (03 Mar 2008) # Masking due to security bug #194607 and security bug #204067 games-fps/doom3 games-fps/doom3-cdoom games-fps/doom3-chextrek games-fps/doom3-data games-fps/doom3-demo games-fps/doom3-ducttape games-fps/doom3-eventhorizon games-fps/doom3-hellcampaign games-fps/doom3-inhell games-fps/doom3-lms games-fps/doom3-mitm games-fps/doom3-roe games-fps/quake4-bin games-fps/quake4-data games-fps/quake4-demo # (01 Apr 2004) # The following packages contain a remotely-exploitable # security vulnerability and have been hard masked accordingly. # # Please see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44351 for more info # games-fps/unreal-tournament-goty games-fps/unreal-tournament-strikeforce games-fps/unreal-tournament-bonuspacks games-fps/aaut