# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 #################################################################### # # When you add an entry to the top of this file, add your name, the date # in the UTC timezone with a format of YYYY-MM-DD, 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 (2019-07-01) ## # 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 (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 --- # Alice Ferrazzi (2021-09-16) # Regression in POSIX CPU timers. # Please upgrade your gentoo-sources. # Adding affected vanilla-sources # https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg499206.html =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.14.4 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.13.17 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.10.65 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.146 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.14.4 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.13.17 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.10.65 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.4.146 # Michał Górny (2021-09-16) # POSIX CPU timers are broken. Please downgrade or wait for next bump # before rebooting. # See e.g. https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/9/15/799 ~sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-5.13.17 ~sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-5.10.65 ~sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-5.4.146 ~sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.13.17 ~sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.10.65 ~sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.4.146 ~sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-5.13.17 ~sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-5.10.65 ~sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-5.4.146 ~virtual/dist-kernel-5.13.17 ~virtual/dist-kernel-5.10.65 ~virtual/dist-kernel-5.4.146 # 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 # Gnome Team (2021-09-13) # GNOME 41 mask, bug #812986 >=dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.69 >=dev-util/glib-utils-2.69 >=dev-libs/glib-2.69 >=net-libs/glib-networking-2.69 # Ionen Wolkens (2021-09-12) # No reverse dependencies, stuck on EAPI-5. # Replaced by dev-libs/spsdeclib. # Removal on 2021-10-12. bug #812806 games-emulation/caps # Ionen Wolkens (2021-09-12) # No reverse dependencies, stuck on EAPI-5, last release in 2006. # Please report if anyone still need this. # Removal on 2021-10-12. bug #776904 media-libs/sdl-terminal # Ionen Wolkens (2021-09-12) # Stuck on x86 / amd64-multilib, no upstream, code relies on # several implicit constructs and undefined behavior, ebuild # semi-broken and runtime seems broken even if built. # Removal on 2021-10-12. bug #701414, bug #739188. games-emulation/nestra # Arthur Zamarin (2021-09-11) # No reverse dependencies. Implements ordered set, which was needed # for the python 2.6 era, and since python 2.7 isn't needed and is # builtin in the language. Upstream isn't active at all. # No other distros package it anymore. # Removal on 2021-10-11. Bug #812554 dev-python/oset # Arthur Zamarin (2021-09-11) # No reverse dependencies. Has issues with porting to python 3.10. # Has known upstream issues with latest GitHub's markdown parsing. # Last year upstream planned to archive the repository, no activity # since. No other distros package it anymore. # Extra bug: #798195 # Removal on 2021-10-11. Bug #812530. dev-python/py-gfm # Arthur Zamarin (2021-09-11) # Upstream repository was archived. No reverse dependencies (only blocked # by one other package). Implements GitHub API in python, while better and # maintained packages are in tree. Has non trivial issues with bump to # python 3.10. No other distros package it anymore. # Extra bugs: #791673, #723542, #802999 # Removal on 2021-10-11. Bug #812521. dev-python/txgithub # Jakov Smolić (2021-09-09) # Relies on setuptools' deprecated use_2to3 option. # Last release in 2019, no revdeps. # Removal on 2021-10-09. Bug #812236 dev-python/sparql-wrapper # Jakov Smolić (2021-09-09) # Relies on setuptools' deprecated use_2to3 option. # Last release in 2019, no revdeps. # Removal on 2021-10-09. Bug #812233 dev-python/pybluez # Jakov Smolić (2021-09-09) # Relies on setuptools' deprecated use_2to3 option. # Last release in 2015, no revdeps. # Removal on 2021-10-09. Bug #812224 dev-python/lcdproc # Jakov Smolić (2021-09-09) # Relies on setuptools' use_2to3 option. # Last release in 2017, no revdeps. # Removal on 2021-10-09. Bug #812221 dev-python/fudge # Anna Vyalkova (2021-09-07) # Mask backwards-incompatible version to avoid autodeletion of previous one. # Data migration is not supported upstream and can't be done automatically. # https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/releases/tag/4.0.0 # https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/blob/master/resources/docs/Documentation.md#migratt >=net-news/rssguard-4.0.0 # Louis Sautier (2021-09-09) # No reverse dependencies, no upstream activity for more than 3 years. # dev-python/oauthlib is maintained and provides the same functionality. # Removal on 2021-10-09. dev-python/oauth2 # Thomas Deutschmann (2021-09-07) # Masked while being tested and reverse deps aren't fully compatible # bug #797325. =dev-libs/openssl-3.0* # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-09-07) # EAPI-5, dead upstream, last (and only) version added in 2011 # Bug 644344; Removal on 2021-10-07. net-libs/gsnmp # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-09-07) # EAPI-5, dead upstream, last bump in 2012 # Bug 644344; Removal on 2021-10-07. net-analyzer/scli # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-09-04) # EAPI-5, dead, unused, bug 808213; Removal on 2021-10-04. x11-libs/mx # David Seifert (2021-09-04) # Last upstream release over 2.5 years ago, removed by Fedora, # unresponsive maintainer in Gentoo, broken with linux-headers-5.13, # relies on glibc implementation details. # Bug #717114, #801457, removal in 30 days. dev-util/trinity # Ionen Wolkens (2021-09-03) # Currently may not function with kde-plasma/kwin (black screen), # so keeping masked for testing due to being a primary consumer. # Should be safe to unmask if you are using x11-wm/mutter instead. >=gui-libs/egl-wayland-1.1.8 # Sam James (2021-09-03) # Mask broken version of setuptools_scm with # missing runtime dependency. # bug #811504 =dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0 # David Seifert (2021-08-29) # Broken for the past 5 years (#585942), no new upstream release in over # 5 years. Same issues as sci-biology/wgs-assembler, use a modern # assembler like sci-biology/abyss or canu. # Bug #585942, #731880, #808667, removal in 30 days. sci-biology/mira # Alexey Sokolov (2021-08-30) # Homepage dead, uses gtk2, fails to build, https://bugs.gentoo.org/711344 games-puzzle/gnudoku # Stephan Hartmann (2021-08-28) # Dev channel releases are only for people who # are developers or want more experimental features # and accept a more unstable release. >=www-client/chromium-95 # Michał Górny (2021-08-28) # EOL kernel with known vulnerabilities. Please move to 5.13 or one # of the LTS branches. Bug #808990. =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-5.12* =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.12* =sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-5.12* =virtual/dist-kernel-5.12* # Anthony G. Basile (2021-08-27) # Masked for removal in 30 days. Deprecated upstream. net-vpn/ipsec-tools # Bernard Cafarelli (2021-08-26) # Preparing for final 5.0.0 release >=app-text/tesseract-5.0.0_beta # Arthur Zamarin (2021-08-20) # Inactive upstream. # Fully superseded by dev-python/dnspython. All reverse dependencies support # and recommend usage of dev-python/dnspython. # No other distros package it anymore. # Removal on 2021-09-19. Bug #809239. dev-python/pydns # Sam James (2021-08-18) # Fails to build with glibc-2.34. End of maintenance # upstream was declared in 2007. Several other serious # bugs open. Removal on 2021-09-19. # bug #711088, bug #775944, bug #790680, bug #806953. net-analyzer/netwox net-analyzer/netwag # Sam James (2021-08-17) # Fails to build with >= Boost 1.73, so broken for well over a year. # Several open bugs: bug #722882, bug #742290, bug #808673. # Removal on 2021-09-17. sys-fs/e4rat # David Seifert (2021-08-04) # Last release over 4 years ago, upstream pretty much dead, the # ecosystem has switched to dev-util/pkgconf, which is alive. Testing # and prefix bugs, blocks WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.12 removal. # (If you hit blockers, please run: # $ emerge --deselect dev-util/pkgconfig # This is necessary as your world file should not contain dependencies.) dev-util/pkgconfig # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-08-02) # Depends on Qt5WebKit with more holes in it than swiss cheese. Bug #685750 # Last release in 2016. Removal on 2021-10-04. mail-client/trojita # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-08-02) # Depends on Qt5WebKit with more holes in it than swiss cheese. Bug #740416 # Removal on 2021-10-04. app-text/fb2edit # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-08-02) # No commits to upstream repository for >9 months, latest available tarball # still "alpha" with warning about known unpatched vulnerabilities. Bug #684580 # Removal on 2021-10-04. dev-qt/qtwebkit:5 # 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 # Craig Andrews (2021-07-10) # Masked until November, 2021 # This release adds enforcement of the Taproot protocol change to the Bitcoin # rules, beginning in November. Protocol changes require user consent to be # effective, and if enforced inconsistently within the community may compromise # your security or others! If you do not know what you are doing, learn more # before November. (You must make a decision either way - simply not upgrading # is insecure in all scenarios.) # To learn more, see https://bitcointaproot.cc >=net-p2p/bitcoind-0.21.1 >=net-p2p/bitcoin-qt-0.21.1 >=net-libs/libbitcoinconsensus-0.21.1 # Lars Wendler (2021-07-10) # Masked for testing >=mail-client/claws-mail-4.0.0 # 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 # David Seifert (2021-07-01) # Berkeley DB slots that are long past EOL by Oracle, # maintenance burden, and no real path forward by Oracle. # Bug #792222, removal in 90 days. sys-libs/db:1 sys-libs/db:3 sys-libs/db:4.2 sys-libs/db:4.3 sys-libs/db:4.4 sys-libs/db:4.5 sys-libs/db:4.6 sys-libs/db:4.7 sys-libs/db:5.1 # Conrad Kostecki (2021-06-20) # New Minecraft server release needs at least Java 16, # which is currently not available in Gentoo. >=games-server/minecraft-server-1.17 # Sam James (2021-06-12) # Masked until all reverse dependencies support # OCaml 4.12. # bug #795138 >=dev-lang/ocaml-4.12 =dev-ml/camlp4-4.12 # 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* # Sam James (2021-06-01) # Possible issues with new ALSA release # See bug #793410 =media-libs/alsa-lib-1.2.5_p20210604 =media-libs/alsa-topology-conf-1.2.5 =media-libs/alsa-ucm-conf-1.2.5-r1 =media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.2.5 =media-sound/alsa-utils-1.2.5-r1 # Michał Górny (2021-05-31) # Requires removed media-libs/opencv version. (2021-05-16) # Mask gcc-7 branch (ended upstream support). Please switch # to a fresher gcc branch. (2021-05-16) # Mask gcc-6 branch (ended upstream support). Please switch # to a fresher gcc branch. (2021-05-07) # Masked for testing. Two major releases ahead of last packaged version. # Please report bugs but this is experimental for now. # bug #731266 >=net-mail/cyrus-imapd-3.4.0 # David Seifert (2021-05-05) # Causes unsolvable package conflicts, bug #788310 >=media-libs/openexr-3 # Eray Aslan (2021-04-29) # Mask experimental software =mail-mta/postfix-3.7* # Ulrich Müller (2021-04-20) # Version 3.15 is broken with Emacs 27.2. =app-emacs/mic-paren-3.15-r0 # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2021-04-18) # dev-java/xerces-2.12.1 depends on masked >=virtual/{jdk,jre}-11 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/782697 >=dev-java/xerces-2.12.1 # Lars Wendler (2021-04-08) # Masked for testing >=app-crypt/gnupg-2.3.0 # 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 # Sam James (2021-03-01) # Mask new proj 8.x as it removes deprecated # API. Likely to break several consumers # which haven't yet ported. # bug #729098 >=sci-libs/proj-8.0.0 >=sci-geosciences/qmapshack-1.16 # 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 # Ulrich Müller (2020-10-04) # Version 1.11 introduced different startup conventions for the server # which breaks the OpenRC init script. Bug #746227. >=net-misc/tigervnc-1.11.0 # 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/sunpinyin-3.0.0_rc1 ~app-i18n/ibus-sunpinyin-3.0.0_rc1 ~app-i18n/scim-sunpinyin-3.0.0_rc1 ~app-i18n/xsunpinyin-3.0.0_rc1 # Miroslav Šulc (2020-02-27) # >=dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj-4.10 depends on masked >=virtual/{jdk,jre}-11 # www-servers/tomcat >= 9 depends on masked dev-java/eclipse-ecj >=dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj-4.10 >=dev-java/eclipse-ecj-4.10 >=www-servers/tomcat-9 # Stefan Strogin (2020-02-12) # Mask for testing revdeps. >=dev-games/mygui-3.4.0 # 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 (2019-07-08) # Needs LOTS of testing, broke boot on my laptop in early attempts, maybe needs # matching genkernel work? >=sys-fs/lvm2-2.03 # Andreas Sturmlechner (2018-11-25) # Masked per security vulnerability CVE-2018-14345, bug #661510 # Keeping it masked while users have unsolved issues with >0.15.0. (2018-10-07) # Masked for more testing especially of reverse-deps. >=dev-games/ogre-1.11.2 # Andreas K. Hüttel (2018-09-11) # Mask transition ebuilds that were needed only for (2017-12-17) # 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. virtual/jdk:11 virtual/jre:11 # Andreas K. Hüttel (2017-10-18) # 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 sys-devel/automake:1.9 sys-devel/automake:1.10 sys-devel/automake:1.11 sys-devel/automake:1.12 # 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