# Copyright 1999-2020 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, 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 --- # Sergei Trofimovich (2020-06-21) # virtual/libstdc++ has only one sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 provider. # Use that instead. Or even better use none of them. It's a # library from 2005. Removal in 30 days. virtual/libstdc++ # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-06-20) # Stuck on Python 2, depends on deprecated dev-python/pygobject:2 media-libs/pymemphis # Ulrich Müller (2020-06-20) # Unmaintained upstream, included with TeX Live. # Use >=dev-texlive/texlive-metapost-2020-r1 as replacement. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #728904. dev-tex/feynmf # Aaron Bauman (2020-06-20) # Py2 only # Removal in 14 days app-crypt/openvpn-blacklist app-forensics/volatility <=dev-libs/distorm64-3.4.2 app-misc/yagtd app-text/pylize app-vim/easytags app-vim/notes dev-db/metakit dev-python/backports-ssl-match-hostname dev-python/backports-shutil_get_terminal_size dev-python/backports-shutil_which dev-python/python-wpactrl dev-util/bakefile dev-vcs/git-deps dev-vcs/git-remote-hg games-board/scid games-emulation/openmsx games-kids/childsplay games-mud/lyntin games-sports/ski mail-filter/tmda media-video/subdl media-sound/cplay media-sound/tunapie net-firewall/dshieldpy net-mail/offlineimap net-misc/switzerland net-wireless/multimode sci-biology/last sci-chemistry/hollow sci-chemistry/modeller sci-chemistry/pymol-plugins-msms sci-geosciences/tilecache sci-libs/deap sci-libs/pycifrw www-apps/curator x11-apps/whyteboard x11-plugins/purple-plugin_pack # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-06-18) # Games depending on dead gnome-base/libgnomeui. # games-board/gnono: Bug #726788, last release 2007, abandoned upstream. # games-puzzle/gtetrinet: Bug #726798 last release 2006, abandoned upstream. # games-board/mt_gtk_client: Bug #726808, last commit 17 years ago. # games-board/sirius: Bug #726814, last release 15 years ago, dead upstream. games-board/gnono games-puzzle/gtetrinet games-board/mt_gtk_client games-board/sirius # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-06-18) # Depends on dead gnome-base/libgnomeui. Really, no one else is packaging # this, last (and only) release in 2006, abandoned upstream. Bug #726790 dev-embedded/gnome-avrdude # Michał Górny (2020-06-14) # Maintainer unresponsive. Stuck on py3.6. Pending version bump. # Failing tests. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #718990. dev-python/hglib # Michał Górny (2020-06-14) # Unmaintained since at least 2014. The current release is 1.5 dev # branch from 2010. Upstream had a few stable 1.4 releases since # but 1.5 seems to be dead. Multiple build failures reported, # and an ebuild vulnerability. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #728186. app-mobilephone/kannel app-mobilephone/kannel-sqlbox # Hans de Graaff (2020-06-14) # Ruby 2.4 is no longer supported by upstream and no longer gets # security updates since the 2.4.10 release. Use ruby 2.5 or later # instead. dev-lang/ruby:2.4 dev-ruby/did_you_mean:2.4 # Mikle Kolyada (2020-06-13) # multiple forks. # Merged into the app-text/texlive-core package # Removal in 30 days. app-text/xindy # Aaron Bauman (2020-06-07) # py2 only. dead upstream. m-n. rdep. # Masked for removal in 15 days net-misc/charm sys-cluster/polysh # Jonas Stein (2020-06-07) # Last rite unusable package. # Removal after 2020-08-01 # Bug 727360 app-misc/ifp-line # Mart Raudsepp (2020-06-06) # Meson port does not handle multilib yet and has issues # regarding runstatedir (not using /run). =net-misc/networkmanager-1.22.10-r11 # Michał Górny (2020-06-05) # Replaced by dev-util/ydiff, after upstream rename. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #710538. dev-util/cdiff # Sam James (2020-06-04) # Large number of vulnerabilities (Bug #692398, Bug #664326) # Unmaintained. # Masked for removal in 30 days. www-apps/otrs # Sam James (2020-06-04) # Multiple vulnerabilities (Bug #655176, Bug #701812) # Misc. other bugs, out of date, no maintainer. # Masked for removal in 30 days. net-nds/389-ds-base dev-libs/389-adminutil dev-libs/svrcore # Stefan Strogin (2020-06-03) # Masked for testing >=dev-libs/libressl-3.2.0 # Michał Górny (2020-06-03) # Very bad quality (upstream) package. Stuck on py3.6. No revdeps. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #718762. dev-python/dnslib # Aaron Bauman (2020-06-02) # py2 only. dead upstream. m-n. # Masked for removal in 30 days app-misc/webcomics-collector net-misc/pytvshows net-news/rawdog # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-06-02) # libgnomeui revdeps with no sign of upstream porting away or doing anything. # No maintainer. Bugs #726826, #726822. Masked for removal in 30 days. app-misc/cbrpager app-misc/ignuit # Joonas Niilola (2020-06-02) # Last snapshot is from 2+ years ago, which doesn't build. Latest # upstream commit won't build with in-tree efl versions. Has a bug # open and unanswered for 2 years, so this package seems unmaintained # in Gentoo. Removal in ~30 days. Bug #656098 x11-themes/terminology-themes # Jonas Stein (2020-06-01) # Last rite package due to missing/unclear license. # Removal after 2020-08-01 # Bug 687664 app-dicts/stardict-quick-eng-fra # Michał Górny (2020-06-01) # Effectively unmaintained, Python 2 only game and its dependencies. # Removal in 30 days. games-action/slune dev-python/editobj dev-python/py2play dev-python/pyopenal dev-python/soya # James Le Cuirot (2020-05-31) # Now merged into media-libs/dumb with the allegro USE flag. This # package was added before EAPI 2 and USE-dependencies. Removal in 30 # days. media-libs/aldumb # Michał Górny (2020-05-31) # The following packages are either unmaintained, or their deps # are unmaintained. They are stuck on Python 3.6 and have no reverse # dependencies outside the list. # # app-admin/dxf: #718178 # dev-python/fastparquet: #718820 # dev-python/numba: #719286 # dev-python/raven: #719522 # dev-python/sphinxcontrib-documentedlist: #719564 # dev-python/thriftpy: #719590 # dev-python/toro: #719592 # # Removal in 30 days. app-admin/dxf dev-python/fastparquet dev-python/numba dev-python/raven dev-python/sphinxcontrib-documentedlist dev-python/thriftpy dev-python/toro # Michał Górny (2020-05-31) # Outdated. Not touched since the initial commit. Lacks py3.7 support. # No reverse dependencies outside the three packages. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #708270. dev-python/graphql-core dev-python/gql # Hans de Graaff (2020-05-24) # No releases since 2011, upstream is gone, fails tests, # no reverse dependencies. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/rack-mount # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-05-23) # Obsolete GNOME 2 era packages, stuck on Python 2 and pygtk, # bugs #640022, #708094. Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-python/gconf-python dev-python/gnome-python-base dev-python/pygtksourceview (2020-05023) # Masked for removal in 30 days. # Not useful anymore now that metasploit has been removed. app-eselect/eselect-metasploit # Aaron W. Swenson (2020-05-15) # PostgreSQL 9.4 series is EOL. Migrate your database cluster to a more recent # version. # Removal after 2020-06-14. (2020-04-30) # Requires =dev-db/mysql-5.7. Masked for removal in 30 days. (2020-04-29) # Masked for testing >=dev-libs/gjs-1.64 # Michael Orlitzky (2020-04-19) # Stuck on Python 3.6, support for which already required # backporting patches to a release from 2014. Upstream's git # HEAD works fine, but they can't be bothered to make a new # release. Bug 718326. Removal whenever it becomes an issue. mail-filter/pyzor # Georgy Yakovlev (2020-04-18) # Unmaintained, vulnerable oracle java ebuilds, even fetching distfiles # requires agreement to restrictive license # Revdeps that still depend on oracle variants require javafx # javafx package for icedtea or openjdk is in the works and # will be commited before oracle-jdk is removed. # Oracle JDK Removal in 30 days. # Packages will get unmasked after switch to openjfx. # https://bugs.gentoo.org/681828 dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin dev-java/oracle-jre-bin app-text/jabref-bin dev-java/netbeans-platform dev-java/netbeans-harness games-util/pogo-manager-bin net-p2p/bisq sci-mathematics/geogebra # Michał Górny (2020-03-29) # Unmaintained, seriously outdated, vulnerable. Multiple bugs reported. # Stuck on Python 3.6. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #711702. app-metrics/buildbot-prometheus (2020-03-28) # In Linux ~4.18, IPX (Internetwork Packet eXchange) protocol and # NCPFS (NetWare Core Protocol Filesystem) support was removed due # to lack of maintenance. Due to both being dead from a technology # standpoint and lack of any upstream activity, mask the below # packages and remove in 75 days. # Bug #681820 net-fs/ncpfs net-misc/ipx-utils # Georgy Yakovlev (2020-03-27) # Vulnerable old version of icedtea-web #711392 # new version is not packaged yet # package is not going away anytime soon, just masked # for security. unmask as needed. dev-java/icedtea-web # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-03-14) # Breaks at least dev-games/simgear right now, bug #709878. ~dev-games/openscenegraph-3.6.5 # Eray Aslan (2020-03-09) # Mask experimental software =mail-mta/postfix-3.6* # Miroslav Šulc (2020-02-27) # Depends on dev-java/eclipse-ecj:4.13 which # depends on >=virtual/{jdk,jre}-11 which is masked 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) # Known breakages that need to be handled first, bug 698922 >=x11-libs/pango-1.43 # Robin H. Johnson (2020-01-26) # EAPI conversion caused some regressions, need to redesign old ebuilds. =dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r5 # 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 # Georgy Yakovlev (2020-01-26) # Starting with Firefox 74 Mozilla removes xpi sideloading support # install from addons.mozilla.org # passff-host remains in the tree www-plugins/passff # Victor Payno (2020-01-23) # Requires slotted lua. =dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r103 =dev-lang/lua-5.2.4-r2 =dev-lang/lua-5.3.5-r2 # Michał Górny (2020-01-16) # The new version loses Python 2 support but does not introduce any real # changes. Let's mask it to reduce the noise, and hopefully try to get # python2_7 out of default PYTHON_TARGETS first. ~dev-python/setuptools-46.1.3 >=dev-python/setuptools-47 # Ulrich Müller (2020-01-06) # Snapshots from Git and pretest versions, masked for testing. =app-editors/emacs-27.0.50_pre* ~app-editors/emacs-27.0.90 # David Seifert (2019-12-08) # Unmaintained, build hangs, tons of other build failures, missing # dependencies. Bug #663794, #666916, #666922, #667062, #678068, # #681678, #684420, #694488. Removal in 30 days. dev-db/clickhouse # 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 # Michał Górny (2019-10-20) # Testing version that breaks multiple plugins. Let's keep it masked # until upstream releases fixed versions. ~xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.15.2 # Lars Wendler (2019-10-16) # Depends on apache-2.2 dev-libs/OpenSRF # Miroslav Šulc (2019-10-16) # Depends on >=virtual/{jdk,jre}-11 which is masked dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj:4.13 dev-java/eclipse-ecj:4.13 # Stefan Strogin (2019-09-27) # Requires >=dev-lang/lua-5.3 which is masked >=dev-util/bam-0.5.0 # 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 # Daniel Pielmeier (2019-07-06) # Requires >=dev-lang/lua-5.2 which is masked >=app-admin/conky-1.11.4 # Georgy Yakovlev (2019-04-17) # The Oracle JDK License has changed for releases starting 2019-04-16 # While it may be fine to use for some usecases it's not comepletely clear # what is considered "personal use" and if we can legally distribute it. # License states: # "You may not: # make the Programs available in any manner to any third party" # masking all future versions, removal will follow soon. # Alternatives: icedtea, icedtea-bin, openjdk, openjdk-bin, openjdk-jre-bin # Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/681828 >dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.202:1.8 >dev-java/oracle-jre-bin-1.8.0.202:1.8 # Robin H. Johnson (2019-03-25) # Requires >=dev-lang/lua-5.3 which is masked sys-apps/likwid # Matt Turner (2019-03-16) # Previously packaged drivers, now removed from Gentoo. # Keep this mask in place so users are aware, but can also easily unmask them # in an overlay if so desired. x11-drivers/xf86-input-citron x11-drivers/xf86-video-apm x11-drivers/xf86-video-ark x11-drivers/xf86-video-chips x11-drivers/xf86-video-cirrus x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix x11-drivers/xf86-video-i128 x11-drivers/xf86-video-i740 x11-drivers/xf86-video-impact x11-drivers/xf86-video-mach64 x11-drivers/xf86-video-neomagic x11-drivers/xf86-video-newport x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc x11-drivers/xf86-video-rendition x11-drivers/xf86-video-s3 x11-drivers/xf86-video-s3virge x11-drivers/xf86-video-savage x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis x11-drivers/xf86-video-sisusb x11-drivers/xf86-video-sunbw2 x11-drivers/xf86-video-suncg14 x11-drivers/xf86-video-suncg3 x11-drivers/xf86-video-suncg6 x11-drivers/xf86-video-sunffb x11-drivers/xf86-video-sunleo x11-drivers/xf86-video-suntcx x11-drivers/xf86-video-tdfx x11-drivers/xf86-video-tga x11-drivers/xf86-video-trident x11-drivers/xf86-video-tseng x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo # Miroslav Šulc (2019-01-23) # Depends on >=virtual/{jdk,jre}-11 which is masked dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj:4.10 dev-java/eclipse-ecj:4.10 # Thomas Deutschmann (2018-12-10) # Requires >=dev-lang/lua-5.2 which is masked >=app-admin/lsyncd-2.2.3 # 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. (2018-11-07) # on behalf of Mozilla Project # Mask old/vuln thunderbird for removal by 2019, # see security bug 670102 (2018-10-12) # EOL and has known vulnerabilities. Please move to # Firefox 60 or newer if you can. (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 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: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 # Robin H. Johnson (2017-01-05) # Masking for testing =app-emulation/ganeti-2.16* =app-emulation/ganeti-2.17* # 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 # Andreas K. Hüttel (2016-04-03) # 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 # 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 # Lars Wendler (2019-01-25) # Also masked because of mostly incompatible license (AGPL-3) =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 # Matti Bickel (2014-04-22) # Masked slotted lua for testing # William Hubbs (2016-08-07) # Taking this mask since Mabi is retired # Rafael Martins (2016-12-04) # 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-5.1.5-r102 =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3 =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3-r1 =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3-r2 =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3-r3 =dev-lang/lua-5.2.4 =dev-lang/lua-5.2.4-r1 =dev-lang/lua-5.3.3 =dev-lang/lua-5.3.3-r1 =dev-lang/lua-5.3.3-r2 =dev-lang/lua-5.3.5 =dev-lang/lua-5.3.5-r1 # Samuli Suominen (2012-03-06) # Masked for testing since this is known to break nearly # every reverse dependency wrt bug 407091 >=dev-lang/lua-5.2.0 # 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