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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 --- # Ionen Wolkens (2023-05-28) # Both versions are affected by notable regressions, i.e. 2.8.5 # leaves 100% cpu processes behind, and 2.8.6 has broken positioning # and scaling. Use 2.8.4 unless need the sway/hyprland support. # Under active development and releases are a bit experimental. =media-gfx/ueberzugpp-2.8.5 =media-gfx/ueberzugpp-2.8.6 # Andreas K. Hüttel (2023-05-28) # Causes only problems, at negligible gain. Removal in 30days. # Bugs 880573, 864157, 885471, 870454, 884571 sys-libs/libbacktrace # Fabian Groffen (2023-05-26) # Cygwin package for which keyword/profile support was dropped # Removal on 2023-06-25. Bug #907194. app-admin/cygwin-rebase dev-libs/pthreads4w sys-devel/parity sys-libs/cygwin-crypt # Sam James (2023-05-24) # Breaks building C++ consumers at least: bug #906755, bug #906879, bug #906957. # Please upgrade to >=0.5.1. =net-libs/libproxy-0.5.0 # Sam James (2023-05-23) # Argument splitting seems broken, see bug #906892 and https://github.com/ffi/ffi-compiler/issues/23. =dev-ruby/ffi-compiler-1.2.0 # Sam James (2023-05-20) # Various regressions, please upgrade to the latest libxml2 (>=2.11.4). =dev-libs/libxml2-2.11.1 =dev-libs/libxml2-2.11.2 =dev-libs/libxml2-2.11.2-r1 =dev-libs/libxml2-2.11.3 # Sam James (2023-05-19) # Breaks Portage's pid-sandbox at least with 5.10 kernels. Pending investigation. # If you're hitting this, try: FEATURES="-pid-sandbox" emerge -v1 sys-apps/util-linux # as a workaround. bug #906797. ~sys-apps/util-linux-2.39 # Michał Górny (2023-05-19) # Replaced by dev-python/pyproject-hooks. No revdeps left. # Removal on 2023-06-18. Bug #906789. dev-python/pep517 # David Seifert (2023-05-19) # Abandoned, NIH library only used by other obsolete packages like gkeys # and layman, use app-crypt/gpgme[python] as a proper upstream # supported gpg library. Removal on 2023-08-17. dev-python/pyGPG # David Seifert (2023-05-19) # Abandoned, replaced by 'eselect repository', tons of open bugs. # Removal on 2023-08-17. Bug #761199. app-portage/layman # David Seifert (2023-05-19) # EAPI 6, abandoned, never went anywhere, long obsolete with # app-crypt/gkeys removal. # Use these instead: # sec-keys/openpgp-keys-gentoo-auth # sec-keys/openpgp-keys-gentoo-developers # sec-keys/openpgp-keys-gentoo-release # Removal on 2023-06-18. Bug #566782, #659822 app-crypt/gentoo-keys # Thomas Beierlein (2023-05-17) # Functionality got integrated into >=net-wireless/gnuradio-3.10 # itself. See # https://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/linux-software/gnuradio # Removal on 2023-06-17. Bug #897168. net-wireless/gr-iio # Michał Górny (2023-05-16) # Unmaintained since 2020. Does not implement TOML 1.0, buggy. # Alternatives include built-in tomllib module (Python 3.11+), # dev-python/tomli along with dev-python/tomli-w, dev-python/tomlkit. # Removal on 2023-06-15. Bug #878651. dev-python/toml # David Seifert (2023-05-14) # QA and build issues, EAPI 6, no proper releases, no other # distro packages this. Removal on 2023-06-13. Bug #713794, #872539. dev-vcs/cvsync # David Seifert (2023-05-14) # EAPI 6, last release over 20 years ago, no other distro packages this # anymore. Removal on 2023-06-13. dev-tex/cpp2latex # Michał Górny (2023-05-13) # Unmaintained. Does not build anymore. No activity upstream # since 2019, the build system is messy and fixing the issues would take # a lot of effort. # Removal on 2023-06-12. Bug #791034. games-emulation/pcsxr # Matt Turner (2023-05-12) # Dead slot. Only reverse dependency is stardict which is masked for removal # Removal on 2023-06-12 gnome-extra/gucharmap:0 # Matt Turner (2023-05-11) # Depends on many deprecated packages, such as # - app-text/enchant:0 # - app-text/gnome-doc-utils # - gnome-extra/gucharmap:0 # - x11-libs/gtk+:2 # No reverse dependencies. # Bug #905901. Removal on 2023-06-11 app-text/stardict # Sam James (2023-05-10) # A major reverse depndency (kde-apps/libkexiv2) does not yet build against this # so mask for now, see bug #906087 and bug #906090. =media-gfx/exiv2-0.28.0 # Sam James (2023-05-10) # Lots of package breakage as usual for new versions. Masked until most/all # reverse dependencies are fixed. Tracker bug is bug #906077. =dev-libs/libfmt-10* # Matt Turner (2023-05-08) # Package is unmaintained and appears quite dead. Last release in 2020. Broken # with stable glib-2.76. Depends on app-text/enchant:0. # Bug #905954. Removal on 2023-06-08 net-im/mcabber # Michał Górny (2023-05-05) # The Gentoo packages are severely out of date, and they haven't been # ported to Python 3.11. They are hard to keep working, and there # are better alternatives available. The suggested replacements are: # media-gfx/prusaslicer, media-gfx/superslicer and orcaslicer # (not packaged). # Removal on 2023-08-04. Bug #905769. media-gfx/cura acct-group/ultimaker acct-user/ultimaker dev-libs/libarcus dev-libs/clipper dev-libs/libcharon dev-libs/libnest2d dev-libs/libsavitar dev-python/pynest2d dev-python/uranium media-gfx/fdm-materials media-gfx/curaengine # Mike Gilbert (2023-05-04) # Out of date by several versions. Many unresolved security # vulnerabilities. Lack of manpower/interest in keeping it up to date. # Removal on 2023-06-03. # Chromium-based bin alternatives: google-chrome, microsoft-edge & vivaldi. www-client/chromium-bin # Sam James (2023-05-03) # Broken pkgconfig file, please upgrade to -r1. # bug #704348, bug #905632, bug #905822 =sci-libs/metis-5.2.1 =sci-libs/metis-5.2.1-r1 =sci-libs/parmetis-4.0.3_p20230326 # Michał Górny (2023-05-03) # Unmaintained upstream. Fails to build without sys-apps/which, fails # with modern autoconf. # Removal on 2023-06-02. Bug #896896. dev-python/thunarx-python # Sam James (2023-05-01) # Breaks dev-python/scipy build. See bug #905396 and https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/gast/issues/74. =dev-python/pythran-0.13.0 =dev-python/gast-0.5.4 # John Helmert III (2023-04-30) # STARTTLS vulnerability, depends on gtk+:2, practically unmainatined # upstream. Use mail-client/claws instead. Removal in 30 days, bugs # #769293, #807358 mail-client/sylpheed # Sam James (2023-05-01) # Quite broken, see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109672. =sys-devel/gcc-14.0.0_pre20230430 # Andreas Sturmlechner 2023-04-30 # Breaking even latest ~arch version of KDE PIM, bug #905352. =dev-libs/ktextaddons-1.3* # Mike Gilbert (2023-04-26) # Merged into net-libs/ldns. Bug 828109. # Removal on 2023-05-26. net-dns/ldns-utils # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2023-04-22) # Unused acct-group. Removal on 2023-05-22 # The server was removed on 2021-08-24 with commit # 7a1e8a90fa8a09a84741dc8ef5f774d92ae8433c acct-group/resin # Conrad Kostecki (2023-04-23) # Very old package, does not build with modern compilers. # It provides BOOTP support, predecessor of DHCP. # Removal on 2023-05-23. Bugs #894128, #884335 sys-boot/netboot # Jakov Smolić (2023-04-21) # Does not support python 3.11, uses deprecated dev-python/future, # inactive upstream (last commit in 2019). # Removal on 2023-05-21. Bugs #897102, #888293 net-irc/quasselgrep # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2023-04-21) # Unused java libraries. Removal on 2023-05-22 dev-java/avalon-framework dev-java/avalon-logkit java-virtuals/servlet-api dev-java/resin-servlet-api # Sam James (2023-04-19) # Last-minute libstdc++ symbol versioning magic causes e.g. mold, cmake # to segfault: # - https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108969 # - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2187768#c4 # 13.0.1_pre20230419 was GCC 13.1 RC1. RC2 will be made when this is fixed. =sys-devel/gcc-13.0.1_pre20230419 # Michał Górny (2023-04-18) # Breaks ABI without SOVERSION bump, effectively preventing # xfce4-terminal from starting. # https://bugs.gentoo.org/904500 =xfce-base/libxfce4ui-4.19.0 # Sam James (2023-04-16) # SEEK_HOLE issues causing corruption with (sparse?) copies again. # See https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/14753. =sys-fs/zfs-kmod-2.1.10 # Sam James (2023-04-13) # Leads to broken terminal output in e.g. vim and openrc and other applications # like joe crashing. # Bugs: # - reported at bottom of bug #904247 and bug #904263 # - app-misc/tmux: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/3531 # - sys-apps/openrc: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues/619 =sys-libs/ncurses-6.4_p20230424 =sys-libs/ncurses-6.4_p20230506 # Eray Aslan (2023-04-12) # Mask experimental software =mail-mta/postfix-3.9* # Ulrich Müller (2023-04-10) # Pretest versions, masked for testing. (2023-03-30) # NVIDIA dropped support for the 390.xx branch in December 2022[1]. # # Users are free to unmask and keep using, but be warned it is very # likely to be affected by security issues as NVIDIA does not track # nor fix these for this branch anymore. # # Gentoo will keep it packaged for as long as reasonably possible # (albeit masked) but no true support will be given nor patches # for newer kernels. It is recommended to use 6.1.x LTS kernels or # older (6.1.x will be supported until at least December 2026). # # Major issues will lead to removal without further warning, e.g. # if no usable kernels left in tree, or if broken with a newer Xorg. # # >> It is recommended to switch to nouveau[2] drivers (regardless # of its worse performance), or ideally replace the hardware. # # [1] https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142 # [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nouveau x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers:0/390 # Sam James (2023-03-29) # Regressions in solving ability affecting e.g. igraph: # https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/401 # https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/410 # https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/411 # https://github.com/igraph/igraph/issues/2311 =sci-libs/arpack-3.9.0 # Sam James (2023-03-24) # Please upgrade to make-4.4.1 as make-4.4 has a bunch of issues. =sys-devel/make-4.4 # Hans de Graaff (2023-03-19) # This version of cucumber-core is not compatible with the other # cucumber dependencies. Please downgrade cucumber-core. =dev-util/cucumber-core-11.1.0 # Sam James (2023-03-16) # Breaks building C++ consumers. See bug #901211 and bug #901035. # Please upgrade to glib-2.76.0-r1. =dev-libs/glib-2.76.0 # Mike Pagano (2023-03-10) # Mask =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.15.99 since it does # not include 5.15.99 and is misleading =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.15.99 # Mike Pagano (2023-02-27) # Mask =www-servers/nginx-unit-1.29.0-r1 for testing =www-servers/nginx-unit-1.29.0-r1 # Torokhov Sergey (2023-02-26) # The masked version causes GIMP breaking of Cut/Copy/Paste # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/9175 =media-libs/babl-0.1.100 # Michał Górny (2023-02-25) # Major update. Multiple packages are known to be broken. # Masked for further testing. >=dev-python/cython-3 # Ben Kohler (2023-01-30) # Breaks too many revdeps for now =app-text/discount-3* # Ionen Wolkens (2022-12-24) # Upstream dropped wxGTK support in >=games-emulation/pcsx2-1.7.3773, # and it now always requires Qt6. Masked given Qt6 is also masked in # Gentoo at the moment. It is recommended to use <=pcsx2-1.7.3772 for # now, but you can opt-in for testing by searching for "qtbase" in: # https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/profiles/package.mask # and package.unmask the whole list alongside pcsx2. >=games-emulation/pcsx2-1.7.3773 # Georgy Yakovlev (2022-12-19) # This version currently is not compatible with kernel build (yet) ~dev-util/bindgen-0.63.0 # Jaco Kroon (2022-11-05) # Some potentially breaking changes here, please check the UPGRADE.txt file. # Most important: chan_sip no longer builds by default, if you've migrated to # PJSIP you should be OK and most likely you should be able to safely unmask. # For now to prevent accidental upgrades and to allow proper testing this will # be in place for minimum six months (2023-04-22). =net-misc/asterisk-20* =net-misc/asterisk-opus-20* =net-misc/asterisk-g729-20* # John Helmert III (2022-10-16) # (2022-09-18) # Unfixed root privilege escalation, bug #631552 sys-cluster/slurm # hololeap (2022-08-21) # doctest-parallel does not currently work with Setup.hs (used internally by # haskell-cabal.eclass) # See: dev-haskell/doctest-parallel # Andrew Ammerlaan (2022-08-12) # 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 # Jimi Huotari (2022-08-02) # Masked for testing. The split of some packages may still # change. bug #838970. >=app-editors/retext-8.0.0 dev-python/PyQt6 dev-python/PyQt6-WebEngine dev-qt/qt5compat:6 dev-qt/qtbase:6 dev-qt/qtcharts:6 dev-qt/qtdeclarative:6 dev-qt/qtimageformats:6 dev-qt/qtlocation:6 dev-qt/qtmultimedia:6 dev-qt/qtnetworkauth:6 dev-qt/qtpositioning:6 dev-qt/qtquick3d:6 dev-qt/qtquicktimeline:6 dev-qt/qtscxml: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 >=games-board/tetzle-2.2.2 >=media-video/bino-2 >=x11-misc/albert-0.20.13 # 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 # 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 # James Beddek (2022-01-19) # FFmpeg 5.0 ABI/API changes break many packages. # Masking for tracker/tinderbox. Bug #831437 >=media-video/ffmpeg-5 >=media-sound/spek-0.8.5 # 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 # 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 # 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 # 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 # 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 sys-devel/nvptx-tools