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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 (2021-03-31) # New versions remove PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT support, breaking a lot # of scripts. >=dev-util/pkgdev-0.1.3 >=sys-apps/pkgcore-0.11.7 # Rick Farina (2021-03-30) # Gentoo doesn't use this package, and the one package which needs it now uses the bundled version # Masked for removal in 30 days dev-libs/go-usb # 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 # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-03-30) # Completely broken since profile 17.1, package needs a real maintainer, # bugfix and 3.0.4 version bump. Bugs #677374, #692928 # Removal on 2021-04-29 app-office/ical # Michał Górny (2021-03-30) # Too strict entry_points.txt parsing causes revdeps to crash when # dev-python/paste is installed. >=dev-python/importlib_metadata-3.9 # Craig Andrews (2021-03-29) # Unmaintained upstream. # Project is also not useful due to changes in cryptocurrency mining. # Open security issue, bug #779004 # Removal on 2021-04-29, bug #779166 net-p2p/xmr-stak # Jonas Stein (2021-03-29) # Depends on gtk-2, no release since 2010. # Removal on 2021-05-01. # Bug #779148. app-editors/beaver # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-03-27) # Dead upstream. Bugs #437056, #453964, #550592, #768303 # Removal on 2021-04-26. app-eselect/eselect-infinality app-eselect/eselect-lcdfilter media-libs/fontconfig-ultimate media-libs/fontconfig-infinality # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-03-28) # No release since 2012, depends on deprecated dev-ml/lablgtk:2, no more # revdeps in Gentoo ebuild repository. # Removal on 2021-04-07, bug #769326 dev-ml/cairo-ocaml # Jonas Stein (2021-03-27) # Upstream is gone. Open bugs. Removal after 2021-05-01. # Bug #778800 x11-themes/nimbus # Jimi Huotari (2021-03-26) # No consumers since 2020-09-05 (dev-libs/liboobs), and no known # stand-alone use. # Removal on 2021-04-25. app-admin/system-tools-backends # Michał Górny (2021-03-26) # Pins to a vulnerable version of dev-python/urllib3. No maintainer # in Gentoo. # Removal on 2021-04-25. Bug #714860. dev-python/elasticsearch-curator # Lars Wendler (2021-03-22) # Has unidentified race condition on very fast CPUs that causes maintainer- # mode to be triggered. # Most likely caused by the following upstream commit: # https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=aba75f6d4a9c875a9d5d90a07c6b3678db66a4bf sys-devel/autoconf:2.71 # Sam James (2021-03-22) # Many reverse dependencies need to be ported due to changes in new glib # Masking until they've been updated, see tracker bug for details # bug #777675 =dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common-1.68.0 =dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.68.0 =dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.68.0 =dev-util/glib-utils-2.68.0 =dev-libs/glib-2.68.0 =net-libs/glib-networking-2.68.0 # Marek Szuba (2021-03-19) # Depends on bundled out-of-date Qt5 libraries, and even with those # installed recent upstream versions fail to run. Moreover, we have now # got a source variant in the tree which, while still CLI-only for now, # is up to date and actually works. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #768228. mail-mta/protonmail-bridge-bin # Joonas Niilola (2021-03-16) # A library without consumers, unbuildable for years, ebuilds not # touched in years either. Bugs #664776, #747592. Removal in ~30 days. dev-libs/zookeeper-c # Sergei Trofimovich (2021-03-15) # Needs a port to network-3. No revdeps. Mask for removal # in a month. dev-haskell/network-protocol-xmpp # Sergei Trofimovich (2021-03-15) # Needs a port to ghc-8.10. No revdeps. Mask for removal # in a month. dev-haskell/test-framework-th-prime # Sergei Trofimovich (2021-03-15) # Needs a port to ghc-8.10. No revdeps. Mask for removal # in a month. dev-haskell/encoding # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-03-15) # Unmaintained for >1 year, blocking cleanup of deprecated libraries. # Succeeded by LXQt many years ago (see also: lxqt-base/lxqt-meta). # Removal on 2021-04-14 or replacement by GTK3-based versions available # in ~arch. No more stabilisation is going to happen without the packages # getting a new maintainer. Bugs #708188, #751076, #769524 (2021-03-15) # Needs a port to ghc-8.10. No release for past 6 years. # No revdeps. Mask for removal. dev-haskell/geniplate # Göktürk Yüksek (2021-03-14) # Dead upstream. No revdeps. # Removal in 60 days to allow people extra time # for transitioning out. Bug #776262. app-admin/lastpass-cli # Sam James (2021-03-13) # Stuck on oasis.eclass, out of date # No reverse dependencies # (For ounit: please port your applications to dev-ml/ounit2 # Should be a case of just a sed in most cases.) # Removal in 14 days. Nothing should really # be able to use any of these right now anyway. # bug #775785, bug #749696, bug #711414 dev-ml/qcheck dev-ml/macaque dev-ml/pgocaml dev-ml/csv dev-ml/gen dev-ml/tyxml dev-ml/stringext dev-ml/deriving dev-ml/type-conv dev-ml/optcomp dev-ml/lwt_react dev-ml/batteries dev-ml/ocaml-magic-mime dev-ml/iTeML dev-ml/ocaml-re dev-ml/ocamlify dev-ml/ocamlmod dev-ml/ocaml-expect dev-ml/oasis dev-ml/ounit # Hans de Graaff (2021-03-12) # Requires a (proxy) maintainer with access to Oracle development # libraries. Please express your interest on bug 772128 if you can # help. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/ruby-oci8 # Hans de Graaff (2021-03-11) # Last upstream release in 2018, uses outdated dependencies. No # longer works with dev-ruby/parser, bug 775206. No reverse # dependencies. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/astrolabe # Hans de Graaff (2021-03-09) # Last upstream release in 2013, ruby25-only. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/shorturl # Brian Evans (2021-03-08) # No longer consistently maintained, severely broken with PHP 8 # No reverse dependencies, fails tests # Removal in 30 days. dev-php/PEAR-Config # Hans de Graaff (2021-03-08) # Last litc upstream release in 2010, no reverse dependencies, # ruby25-only. Includes fakeweb test dependency which is also # ruby25-only and has no other reverse dependencies. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/litc dev-ruby/fakeweb # Hans de Graaff (2021-03-08) # Last upstream release in 2009, no reverse dependencies, # no test suite. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/metaid # Hans de Graaff (2021-03-08) # Last upstream release in 2018, no reverse dependencies, # stuck on ruby25. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/nexpose # Hans de Graaff (2021-03-08) # No longer maintained upstream, last release in 2014. # ruby25-only. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/session # Hans de Graaff (2021-03-08) # gitsh is maintainer-needed and stuck on ruby25. # parslet is only needed for gitsh and also ruby25-only. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-vcs/gitsh dev-ruby/parslet # Hans de Graaff (2021-03-08) # Old ruby25-only slots. Use the newer slot instead. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/i18n:0.7 dev-ruby/pcaprub:0.12 dev-ruby/pg:0 # Andreas Sturmlechner (2021-03-07) # Unresolved build issue since 2019, QA issues, bugs #697870 and #705236 # Blocks cleanup of equally broken sci-physics/looptools-2.8, bug #770796 # Masked for removal on 2021-04-06. sci-physics/herwig++ # Conrad Kostecki (2021-03-07) # Upstream since 2004 gone, does not supportnon-English characters, # multiple bugs open and unmaintained. # Removal in 30 days. app-portage/splat # David Seifert (2021-03-06) # Unmaintained, abandoned upstream, tests fail, broken USE=doc, no revdeps # in tree. Removal on 2021-04-03. Bug #623488, #697804, #774447. dev-libs/libgpuarray # Andreas K. Hüttel (2021-03-06) # Fails to build, multiple bugs, outdated, nontrival, unmaintained # Bug 729876 and several others; removal in 30days dev-libs/klibc # Alfredo Tupone (2021-03-07) # unbuildable # Removal on 2021-04-05 www-servers/ocsigenserver dev-ml/eliom dev-ml/js_of_ocaml dev-ml/ocaml-conduit dev-ml/dns dev-ml/ocaml-cohttp dev-ml/ocaml-dispatch dev-ml/ocaml-cstruct dev-ml/ocaml-ipaddr dev-ml/ocaml-uri dev-ml/re2 dev-ml/bin-prot dev-ml/configurator dev-ml/ppx_traverse dev-ml/ppx_type_conv dev-ml/bin-prot dev-ml/ppx_driver dev-ml/ppx_core dev-ml/ppx_ast dev-ml/ppx_traverse_builtins dev-ml/jbuilder # Conrad Kostecki (2021-03-05) # Deprecated by upstream and unsupported due EOL. # Multiple bugs open and unmaintained. # Removal in 30 days. sys-apps/newrelic-sysmond # Conrad Kostecki (2021-03-05) # Dead upstream, multiple bugs open and unmaintained. # Removal in 30 days. app-mobilephone/smsclient # Conrad Kostecki (2021-03-05) # Dead upstream, multiple bugs open and unmaintained. # Removal in 30 days. net-misc/capi4hylafax # Conrad Kostecki (2021-03-05) # Dead upstream and unmaintained. # Removal in 30 days. app-misc/towitoko # Conrad Kostecki (2021-03-04) # Dead upstream and unmaintained. # Removal in 30 days. app-misc/logserial # Conrad Kostecki (2021-03-04) # Dead upstream, open bugs and unmaintained. # Removal in 30 days. net-dns/sheerdns # Sam James (2021-03-03) # Declared abandoned upstream and stuck # on Python 3.7. # Removal in 30 days. app-office/moneyguru # Sam James (2021-03-03) # Doesn't seem to sync clock correctly # in some cases. # bug #772998 ~net-misc/openntpd-6.8_p1 # Alfredo Tupone (2021-03-03) # no package uses it # Removal on 2021-04-02 dev-ml/core_extended # 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 # Sam James (2021-02-18) # 0.9.27 included a regression wrt deletes # bug #768948 =dev-db/lmdb-0.9.27 # Lars Wendler (2021-02-15) # Mask development versions now that they were bumped... =net-misc/kea-1.9* # Sergei Trofimovich (2021-02-08) # Abandoned upstream. Was never ported from gtk-2. # A possible alternative is media-gfx/geeqie (gqview fork). # Removal in 3 months. Bug #769440. media-gfx/gqview # Michał Górny (2021-02-01) # LibreSSL support is discontinued. Please 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 # 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 (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 (2021-03-21) # Dev channel releases are only for people who # are developers or want more experimental features # and accept a more unstable release. >=www-client/chromium-91 # 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 # 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 >=dev-cpp/pangomm-2.48 # Andrew Ammerlaan (2020-01-26) # 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 # 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 # 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 # 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