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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 --- # 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 # Mikle Kolyada (2021-01-04) # This release is broken multiple ways. # Do not use =app-admin/terraform-0.14.3 # Jakov Smolic (2021-01-02) # sci-physics/cernlib fails to build with gcc-10, last release in 2006, # multiple open bugs, all revdeps also broken and declared EOL upstream. # Removal in 30 days, bug #763183 sci-physics/cernlib sci-physics/cernlib-montecarlo sci-physics/paw # Jakov Smolic (2021-01-02) # Fails to build with gcc-10, no maintainer, upstream gone, # multiple open bugs. # Removal in 30 days, bug #677322, bug #707200, bug #716012 net-dialup/diald # Conrad Kostecki (2021-01-01) # NetworkManager has buildin support for WireGuard, # this plugin is old and unmaintained, so let's drop it. # Removal in 30 days. net-vpn/networkmanager-wireguard # Stephan Hartmann (2021-01-01) # Fails with -fno-common, homepage gone, source gone, # no maintainer. # Removal in 30 days. See bug #706824. app-benchmarks/contest # Michał Górny (2021-01-01) # Python 3.6 backports. Unnecessary for py3.7+. # Removal in 14 days. dev-python/aiocontextvars dev-python/contextvars dev-python/dataclasses # Sergei Trofimovich (2021-01-01) # Needs a port to modern Cabal. No revdeps. # Masked for removal. bug #735788, bug #737946 dev-haskell/hgettext # Sam James (2021-01-01) # UnrealIRCd 4.x is EOL. Please upgrade to 5.x. # To be removed shortly. # https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/UnrealIRCd_4_EOL # bug 762715 (2021-01-01) # RenPy requires Python 2.7 at runtime, and py3 port has not been # released yet. Even if it were, the games would probably need porting # anyway. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #735358. dev-python/numpy-python2 games-engines/renpy games-misc/katawa-shoujo games-rpg/asphyxia games-rpg/sakura-spirit games-rpg/the-royal-trap # Michał Górny (2020-12-30) # Unmaintained. Entirely replaced by media-libs/libjpeg-turbo, # to the point that reverse dependencies no longer build with # media-libs/jpeg. The two libraries are binary-incompatible, # and the current method of switching between them is incorrect. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #762634. media-libs/jpeg # Hans de Graaff (2020-12-29) # These slots masked for removal in 30 days due to # security issues, bug 730786 # Use a newer slot instead. dev-ruby/rack:2.0 dev-ruby/rack:2.1 # Jonas Stein (2020-12-29) # Unusable without alsa. # Masked for removal after 2021-02-01 # Bug #762361 media-sound/takcd # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-12-26) # Dead upstream, only two revdeps. # Masked for removal in 30 days. media-libs/qt-gstreamer # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-12-26) # Dead upstream, depends on dead media-libs/qt-gstreamer. # If anyone is actually using this productively, *do tell*. # Masked for removal in 30 days. kde-apps/ktp-call-ui # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-12-26) # Depends on deprecated dev-qt/qtwebkit, abandoned upstream. # Alternatives: Plenty. media-sound/cantata, media-sound/clementine, # media-sound/elisa, media-sound/strawberry, media-sound/yarock, ... # Masked for removal in 30 days. media-sound/tomahawk # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-12-26) # Depends on deprecated dev-qt/qtwebkit, no maintainer, bug #688852. # Masked for removal in 30 days. media-video/smtube # Andreas Sturmlechner (2020-12-26) # Depends on deprecated dev-qt/qtwebkit, no maintainer, bug #709880. # Alternatives: dev-python/weasyprint, xhtml2pdf (not packaged, bug #699356) # Masked for removal in 30 days. media-gfx/wkhtmltopdf # Andrew Savchenko (2020-12-26) # All docs and socket library functionality are merged back into single # app-admin/clsync package using USE="apidoc doc socket-library" starting # from clsync-0.4.5. # No reverse dependencies. Removal in 30 days. (2020-12-22) # Renamed version of dev-python/pycryptodome. The ebuild is missing # fixes from the original. Maintaining and installing two copies # of the same thing makes little sense, so we're forcing the former # everywhere. # Removal in 14 days. dev-python/pycryptodomex # Eray Aslan (2020-12-21) # Vulnerable. upgrade to >= 2.3.11.3. Masked until # mail-filter/dovecot_deleted_to_trash is treecleaned # to prevent breaking the tree (bug #756217) =net-mail/dovecot-2.2.36.4 # Michał Górny (2020-12-20) # Requires old dev-python/unidecode. Last commit in 2017. No revdeps. # Suggested replacement: dev-python/python-slugify. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #714718. dev-python/awesome-slugify # 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 # Michał Górny (2020-12-19) # Made redundant by compiler-rt's crt implementation. No revdeps left. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #760711. sys-libs/netbsd-csu # Mike Pagano (2020-12-18) # Serious data corruption bug when using F2FS, # see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210765 # Feel free to manually unmask when not using F2FS. =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.10.0 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.10.1 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.10.1 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.10.0 # Michał Górny (2020-12-18) # Unmaintained. Last bumped in 2008. Last upstream (beta) in 2014. # The current Gentoo version fails to install. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #701044. net-mail/vacation # Michał Górny (2020-12-18) # Unmaintained. Homepage gone. Last bumped in 2008. Carries multiple # patches. Fails to build again. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #675364. net-ftp/tlswrap # Michał Górny (2020-12-18) # Upstream gone. Last bumped in 2007. Fails to build, again. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #648964. app-text/ots # Michał Górny (2020-12-18) # Unmaintained. The current Gentoo version fails to build, it needs # a version bump. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #669452. net-misc/dhcpd-pools # Michał Górny (2020-12-18) # Unmaintained. Last bumped in 2018. Vulnerable. No revdeps. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #736050. dev-db/aerospike-server-community # Michał Górny (2020-12-18) # Abandoned upstream, circa 2013. Vulnerable. No revdeps. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #744217. app-text/peg-markdown # Michał Górny (2020-12-18) # Abandoned in 2008. No reverse dependencies left. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #652192. dev-libs/ustr # Jack Todaro (2020-12-17) # Old and redundant package. Has not been kept # up to date and no longer works. Masked for removal. sci-mathematics/agda-lib-ffi # Eray Aslan (2020-12-14) # Dead. Last release in 2014. Only works with vulnerable dovecot version. # Recent Outlook versions should have this functionality built in. Switch to a # better mail client if you are still using this package. Removal in 30 days. # Bug #756217 mail-filter/dovecot_deleted_to_trash # Michał Górny (2020-12-13) # Dead. Last commit in 2014. Does not work with modern versions # of Sphinx. No revdeps. Alternative: dev-python/sphinx-issues. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #720066. dev-python/sphinxcontrib-issuetracker # Hans de Graaff (2020-12-12) # Security issue with insecure use of /tmp, bug 743214 # This slot masked for removal in 30 days, use slot 2 instead. dev-ruby/bundler:0 # David Seifert (2020-12-11) # Last MIT release in 2007, declared EOL by Intel in 2017. # Build and test failures, abandoned parallelism paradigm, # no revdeps. If you're really still using this, switch to # OpenMP. Bug #572130, #643590, Removal in 30 days. dev-lang/cilk # Aisha Tammy (2020-12-11) # last update upstream in 2017, does not build. # OpenMP is a better alternative. # Bug #717692, #741594 # Removal in 30 days. sci-libs/xkaapi # Michał Górny (2020-12-10) # Synergy 2.0 was a beta branch, and it should have never been marked # stable. It never reached feature parity with 1.x, and upstream # eventually abandoned it. The users are asked to 'downgrade' to 1.x # that is actively maintained. The buggy 2.0.0 version will be removed # in 30 days. >=x11-misc/synergy-2 # Michał Górny (2020-12-10) # Stuck on LLVM 9. Superseded by dev-util/cvise that features better # parallelization and more acive development. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #735762. dev-util/creduce # 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 # Thomas Deutschmann (2020-11-24) # Serious data corruption bug when using XFS, see https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg47004.html # Feel free to manually unmask when not using XFS. =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.9.10 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.9.9 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.79 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.78 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.19.159 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.19.158 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.14.208 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.14.207 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.9.245 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.9.244 =sys-kernel/pf-sources-5.9_p5 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.9.10 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.9.9 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.4.79 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.4.78 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.19.159 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.19.158 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.14.208 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.14.207 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.9.245 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.9.244 =sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-5.9.10 =sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-5.9.9 =sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-5.4.79 =sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-5.4.78 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-5.9.10 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-5.9.9 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-5.4.79 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-5.4.78 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.9.10-r1 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.9.10 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.9.9-r1 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.9.9 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.4.79-r1 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.4.79 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.4.78-r1 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-5.4.78 # 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 # Alexys Jacob (2020-11-09) # Mask dev-db/mongodb versions which do not support python3 so we # can move forward in cleaning python2 from tree. Bug #708954. # We keep the ebuilds available since some of those versions are still # supported by upstream. See: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-52687 (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 (2020-12-06) # Dev channel releases are only for people who # are developers or want more experimental features # and accept a more unstable release. >=www-client/chromium-89 # 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 # Michał Górny (2020-09-25) # PyPy3.7 alpha. Known to break a few packages. Masked until it # matures more. =dev-python/pypy3-7.3.2_p37* =dev-python/pypy3-exe-7.3.2_p37* =dev-python/pypy3-exe-bin-7.3.2_p37* =dev-python/pypy3-7.3.3_p37* =dev-python/pypy3-exe-7.3.3_p37* =dev-python/pypy3-exe-bin-7.3.3_p37* # Michał Górny (2020-09-09) # These packages (or package versions) still require Python 2.7. # They are either dead upstream, their Python 3 porting efforts are # not progressing or their maintainers are simply unresponsive. # Please do not remove any packages from this list unless you actually # port them to Python 3. # Removal in 30 days. Please find relevant bugs on tracker bug #694800. games-strategy/0ad # 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 # Alfredo Tupone (2020-08-16) # Ported to py3.8 but not yet released # Masked to allow py2.7 removal # Michał Górny (2021-01-01) # Masking for removal to prevent eclass from crashing on these packages. # Removal in 30 days. dev-ada/langkit dev-ada/libadalang dev-ada/libadalang-tools dev-ada/gps dev-ada/gnatcoll-db # 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 # Michał Górny (2020-07-28) # Masked for the time being due to dep on LLVM 8. Bug #720236. <=dev-ada/gps-2019-r1 # 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 # 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 # 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