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Doesn't work ## # with new libfoo. Upstream dead, gtk-1, smells ## # funny. (bug #987654) ## app-misc/some-package #--- END OF EXAMPLES --- # Alfredo Tupone (2021-02-01) # no package uses it # Removal on 2021-03-04 dev-ml/ocaml-data-notation # Michał Górny (2021-02-01) # LibreSSL support is discontinued. Plaase read the relevant news item # and either migrate to dev-libs/openssl, or use the unsupported # user-maintained libressl overlay. # Removal on 2021-05-01. Bug #762847. dev-libs/libressl # Ulrich Müller (2021-01-29) # Pretest versions, masked for testing. ~app-editors/emacs-27.1.91 ~app-editors/emacs-27.1.92 ~app-editors/emacs-27.1.93 # Azamat H. Hackimov (2021-01-26) # Dead upstream (last release 2007), unmaintained, multiple issues, # no reverse dependencies. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #744019 sys-power/ncpufreqd # Azamat H. Hackimov (2021-01-26) # Dead upstream, no live HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #744013 app-text/csvfix # Andreas K. Hüttel (2021-01-26) # In preparation. Do not use yet. ~dev-lang/perl-5.32.1 =virtual/perl-Data-Dumper-2.174.10_rc =virtual/perl-Module-CoreList-5.202.101.230 =virtual/perl-Safe-2.410.100_rc # Brian Evans (2021-01-25) # Dead upstream. Relies on soon to be removed wddx support in PHP. # wddx in general failed overall as a protocol. No real maintainer. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #688066 net-analyzer/jffnms # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-01-24) # (New and QML-based) functionality moved into kde-plasma/plasma-desktop:5 # Masked for removal in 14 days. kde-plasma/user-manager:5 # Aisha Tammy (2021-01-24) # Dead package, wrongly named, only installs # really old scikit-examples. # Removal in 14 days sci-libs/scikits # Jakov Smolic (2021-01-24) # Last release in 2004. Fails to build with gcc-10 and openssl-1.1. # Removal on 2021-02-23. Bugs #707004, #677170, #562724 app-crypt/sign # Conrad Kostecki (2020-01-21) # All kernels >= 4.17 removed IrDA drivers and support, # the package has also multiple bugs open and is unmaintained. # Removal in 30 days. net-wireless/irda-utils # Marek Szuba (2021-01-21) # Masked for testing and further work - the golang-vcs-snapshot variant # seems to be incompatible with revdeps using go-module, the variant # using the latter is still broken. dev-go/qt # Michał Górny (2021-01-19) # Fails to build. Last release in 2000. # Removal on 2021-02-18. Bug #722204. media-sound/mp3_check # Michał Górny (2021-01-19) # Does not build against vdr-2.4. Last release in 2009. Upstream # repository is gone. # Removal on 2021-02-18. Bug #710814. media-plugins/vdr-atscepg # Michał Górny (2021-01-19) # Discontinued. Last release in 2017. The code is broken with py3.7 # and we're doing only the minimal patching to make it not explode # immediately. No revdeps left. # Removal on 2021-02-18. Bug #718688. dev-python/pdfrw # Sam James (2021-01-18) # Older versions: need Python 2 # Newer versions: ported to Python 3, but need # testing on real hardware. # bug #735352 games-strategy/0ad ~games-strategy/0ad-data-0.0.24_alpha_pre20210116040036 # Jonas Stein (2021-01-17) # Removal in 30 days. # Fails to compile Bug #765697. x11-misc/rss-glx # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-01-11) # KF5 PortingAid (from kdelibs4) without any remaining revdeps. Bug #755956 # Masked for removal in 30 days. kde-frameworks/kdesignerplugin # Miroslav Šulc (2021-01-09) # media-sound/patchage used to depend on it but the dependency # has been dropped in v1.0.0. There are no other packages in the tree # depending on it. Also having issues compiling it. Removal in 30 days. media-libs/raul # Brian Evans (2021-01-07) # PHP 7.2 is security vulnerable and end-of-life # Please upgrade to a newer slot dev-lang/php:7.2 virtual/httpd-php:7.2 =dev-php/phpunit-5.7.15-r3 =dev-php/PHP_CodeCoverage-4.0.7-r2 =dev-php/PHP_TokenStream-1.4.11-r1 # Joonas Niilola (2020-01-07) # Eterm's development stopped 2014 and upstream brought to life # its successor, terminology. Eterm is unmaintained in Gentoo with # multiple bugs open for a long time. Switch to any available # alternative, https://packages.gentoo.org/categories/x11-terms # For Esetroot replacement, use feh from media-gfx/feh or wmsetbg # from x11-wm/windowmaker. # Removal in ~30 days. Bug: #764359 x11-terms/eterm # Joonas Niilola (2020-01-07) # Doesn't compile, no maintainer, EAPI-5. Last version bump 3 years # ago. Use any of the available alternatives, # https://packages.gentoo.org/categories/x11-terms # Removal in ~30 days. Bug: #764353 x11-terms/pangoterm # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-01-06) # Post-consolekit cleanup, dead upstream since 2016. # https://s3hh.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/whither-cgmanager/ # Masked for removal in 30 days. sys-libs/libnih # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-01-06) # Abandoned upstream, countless bugs. Replaced by builtin functions in elogind # or systemd. Alternatives: sys-power/suspend, sys-power/hibernate-script. # See also: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Suspend_and_hibernate # Removal on 2021-02-19. Bugs #659616, #764773 sys-power/pm-utils sys-power/pm-quirks # Michał Górny (2021-01-05) # The portable version has been discontinued upstream (i.e. it is now # available only as tightly coupled part of OpenBSD). The current # version relies on dev-libs/libressl implementation details, and can # not be easily ported to dev-libs/openssl. Reported to fail to build # with gcc-10. There are multiple alternative ACME clients available. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #762310. app-crypt/acme-client # Jaco Kroon (2021-01-04) # media-libs/libilbc is (for every package I manage) a drop-in for # dev-libs/ilbc-rfc3951. The latter had net-misc/asterisk, # net-libs/pjproject and net-voip/yate as dependencies. # (All of which has been bumped to no longer have this dependency.) # Removal in 30 days, bug #444470 dev-libs/ilbc-rfc3951 # Sergei Trofimovich (2020-12-20) # Needs a port to haskell-src-exts compatible with ghc-8.8. # https://github.com/ndmitchell/derive/pull/37 dev-haskell/derive app-forensics/quickfuzz # Lars Wendler (2020-12-09) # Masked until most broken packages have been fixed (bug #732648) >=sys-devel/autoconf-2.70 >=sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-14 # Thomas Deutschmann (2020-12-08) # Fails to validate certificates which have multiple trusted # paths. =net-libs/gnutls-3.7.0 # 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 # Alfredo Tupone (2020-11-05) # will be upgraded after new lua release www-apps/liquid_feedback_frontend www-apps/webmcp # Georgy Yakovlev (2020-10-30) # broken acl handling, possible broken chattr handling # needs more testing # https://bugs.gentoo.org/751739 =sys-apps/opentmpfiles-0.3.1 # Stephan Hartmann (2021-01-29) # Dev channel releases are only for people who # are developers or want more experimental features # and accept a more unstable release. >=www-client/chromium-90 # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-10-26) # Historical metapackage that exists in slot 5 only for transition from KDE SC4. # Masked for removal on 2021-08-31. Replaced by: # emerge --noreplace kde-plasma/plasma-meta kde-apps/kde-apps-meta kde-apps/kde-meta:5 # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-10-26) # Historical metapackage that exists in slot 5 only for transition from KDE SC4. # Masked for removal on 2021-08-31. Replaced by: # emerge --noreplace kde-plasma/plasma-meta kde-apps/kdecore-meta kde-apps/kdebase-meta:5 # Azamat H. Hackimov (2020-10-06) # 1.3.3 is broken and failing unittests for net-im/prosody. Bug #746782. >=dev-lua/luaexpat-1.3.3 # 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 # Alfredo Tupone (2020-08-23) # Ported to py3 but not yet released # Masked to allow py2.7 removal dev-lang/spark # Mart Raudsepp (2020-08-15) # Development release, needs testing to ensure valac-0.50 # works for existing packages >=dev-libs/vala-common-0.49 dev-lang/vala:0.50 # Sam James (2020-07-20) # Serious security vulnerabilities, including # remote code execution. Upstream have not yet # made a stable release in response to numerous # CVEs. Applying patches is not a workable # solution for now because of the fragility # of reverse dependencies. # Indefinitely masking until we have a solution # for this. # bug #719084 # Furthermore, ntopng ebuilds depending directly on dev-lang/lua{,jit} # must be migrated to lua eclasses before unmasking (bug #752777). net-analyzer/ntopng net-analyzer/pmacct net-libs/nDPI # Mart Raudsepp (2020-06-06) # Meson port does not handle multilib yet and has issues # regarding runstatedir (not using /run). =net-misc/networkmanager-1.22* # Georgy Yakovlev (2020-03-27) # Vulnerable old version of icedtea-web #711392 (2020-03-09) # Mask experimental software =mail-mta/postfix-3.6* # 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 # Mart Raudsepp (2020-02-16) # Fails to automatically launch pipewire for me. Help welcome figuring it out. net-misc/gnome-remote-desktop # Stefan Strogin (2020-02-12) # Mask for testing revdeps. >=dev-games/mygui-3.4.0 # Patrick McLean (2020-02-07) # Mask until sys-libs/libxcrypt[system] is unmasked >=virtual/libcrypt-2 # Mart Raudsepp (2020-02-03) # Needs news item, known breakages that need to be handled first, bug 698922 >=x11-libs/pango-1.43 # Andrew Ammerlaan (2020-01-26) # Proxy Maintainers # v3.6.4 uses huge amounts of memory: Bug #705682 # v3.6.1 is the latest version without this issue >=dev-libs/libsass-3.6.2 # Lars Wendler (2019-11-14) # Breaks archives containing relative paths # when being called with --no-absolute-filenames # https://bugs.gentoo.org/700020 =app-arch/cpio-2.13 # Lars Wendler (2019-10-16) # Depends on apache-2.2 dev-libs/OpenSRF # 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 # 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 # Michał Górny , Andreas K. Hüttel , # Matthias Maier (2017-05-21 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. (2017-05-20) # Old versions of CUDA and their reverse dependencies. They do not # support GCC 5+, and are really old. # (updated 2017-12-27 with cuda < 8 because of gcc < 5 mask) (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 # Michał Górny (2016-11-17) # 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 # 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* # Mikle Kolyada (2014-06-27) # Masked for proper testing. (Major updates in the code). ~dev-perl/PortageXS-0.2.12 # 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