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Multiple packages are known to be broken. # Masked for further testing. >=dev-python/cython-3 # Ulrich Müller (2023-02-26) # Installs headers, libs, and pkgconfig as "git2-experimental", # which breaks reverse dependencies. Bug #897880 =dev-libs/libgit2-1.6.1 # Matt Turner (2023-02-25) # Packages are unmaintained and archived upstream. # Removal on 2023-03-27. Bug #897748 gnome-extra/seahorse-nautilus x11-libs/libcryptui # Andrew Ammerlaan (2023-02-25) # Fails tests, last upstream commit 2021, does not work with # python3.11. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2023-03-27. Bug 896898 and 888444 dev-python/trio-asyncio # Michał Górny (2023-02-25) # Unmaintained. The Gentoo version is from 2018 and needs bumping. # It has a build failure reported. # Removal on 2023-03-27. Bug #649234. media-gfx/frogr # Michał Górny (2023-02-24) # Unmaintained with multiple reported bugs. Last release is a RC # from 2017, upstream recommends using trunk. # Removal on 2023-03-26. Bug #855548. media-gfx/fim # Michał Górny (2023-02-24) # Unmaintained with reported build failure. The last release is a beta # from 2019, the package had only marginal activity in 2020 and 2021. # Removal on 2023-03-26. Bug #732194. app-editors/notepadqq # Michał Górny (2023-02-24) # Unmaintained. Fails to build with current sys-libs/ncurses. Homepage # gone, last release in 2002. # Removal on 2023-03-26. Bug #776832. app-text/reed # Michał Górny (2023-02-24) # Unmaintained with multiple build failures reported. The current # Gentoo version is from 2015, and is a few releases behind upstream. # Removal on 2023-03-26. Bug #894626. dev-lang/regina-rexx # Michał Górny (2023-02-24) # Unmaintained with reported bugs. Last release in 2004. # Removal on 2023-03-26. Bug #740480. media-tv/nvtv # Michał Górny (2023-02-24) # Fails to build with setuptools-67.2.0. Release from Aug 2020. # Upstream has made a number of releases since. No revdeps. # Removal on 2023-03-26. Bug #892347. dev-python/pygame_sdl2 # Michał Górny (2023-02-24) # Fails to build with setuptools-67.2.0. The current version is from # Jan 2021, upstream had a few releases in 2022. Multiple other bugs.. # Removal on 2023-03-26. Bug #891757. dev-lang/hy # Michał Górny (2023-02-24) # Unmaintained. Does not build against the current version # of app-text/htmltidy. Last upstream commit in 2013. # Removal on 2023-03-26. Bug #806480. net-misc/cbugzilla # Mike Gilbert (2023-02-23) # Deprecated upstream. Use the progressive web app instead. # Removal on 2023-03-26. Bug 880425. net-im/teams # Alexey Sokolov (2023-02-23) # No revdeps left. Bug #745234 # Removal in 30 days. dev-libs/qtcompress # Alfredo Tupone (2023-02-22) # Masked for removal in 30 days. # Not maintained (2021), no rev dep dev-python/quex # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2023-02-20) # Unused Java libraries. Removal on 2023-03-22. dev-java/jboss-modules dev-java/sac # Michał Górny (2023-02-20) # No declared Python 3.11 support. Multiple failing tests (probably due # to being online tests). Last release in 2021, upstream CI is all red. # No revdeps. # Removal on 2023-03-22. Bug #895614. dev-python/pandas-datareader # Michał Górny (2023-02-20) # Uses dev-python/nose, no py3.11 support. Last upstream commit # in 2019. Used only for dev-python/matplotlib[doc]. # Removal on 2023-03-22. Bug #888241. dev-python/colorspacious # Bernd Waibel (2023-02-19) # Obsolete, last consumer is gone. # Removal on 2023-03-21. Bug #892209 app-eselect/eselect-opencascade # Michał Górny (2023-02-19) # Incompatible with Python 3.11. Last commit in 2017, archived in 2020. # No revdeps. # Removal on 2023-03-21. Bug #895342. dev-python/flask-script # Sam James (2023-02-18) # Last release in 2018, needs porting to Python 3.11, and no reverse # dependencies. Removal on 2023-03-18. bug #895174. dev-python/setuptools_trial # Sam James (2023-02-18) # Backport to Python 3.5(!) hence irrelevant for newer versions of Python # where os.scandir() and os.walk() improvements were integrated in the stdlib. # Incompatible with Python 3.11. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2023-03-18. bug #895198 dev-python/scandir # Michał Górny (2023-02-17) # Merged into dev-python/pytest-cov in 2020. No revdeps left. # Removal on 2023-03-19. Bug #895120. dev-python/cov-core # Michał Górny (2023-02-17) # Broken against the current package versions in ::gentoo. Upstream # inactive. No revdeps. # Removal on 2023-03-19. Bug #865931. dev-python/pytest-flake8 # Michał Górny (2023-02-15) # A number of test failures, and the test phase does not fail correctly. # Last release in 2019. No revdeps. # Removal on 2023-03-17. Bug #894606. dev-python/urlgrabber # Michał Górny (2023-02-15) # Unmaintained. Broken with current version of dev-python/pyglet. # No upstream activity since Sep 2021. No revdeps. # Removal on 2023-03-17. Bug #887973. dev-python/glooey # Alfredo Tupone (2023-02-14) # Masked for removal in 30 days. # Not maintained (2020), no rev dep dev-ml/ppxfind # Michał Górny (2023-02-14) # Unmaintained and archived. Invalid version number causes total mayhem # when installed alongside new dev-python/packaging. # Removal on 2023-03-16. Bug #894222. net-p2p/bittornado # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2023-02-10) # Unused Java libraries. Removal on 2023-03-12. dev-java/jcip-annotations dev-java/jformatstring dev-java/jta dev-java/pdf-renderer dev-java/picocli # Florian Schmaus (2023-02-10) # Previous dependencies of ejabberd, now no longer needed. # Removal on 2023-03-10. dev-erlang/iconv dev-erlang/p1_xmlrpc dev-erlang/riak_pb # Florian Schmaus (2023-02-09) # Leftovers from net-im/jabber-base. Unused and obsolete. # Removal on 2023-03-09. acct-user/jabber acct-group/jabber # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2023-02-07) # Unused Java libraries. Removal on 2023-03-08. # jspeex had last upstream activities in 2005. dev-java/jspeex dev-java/osgi-annotation-versioning dev-java/commons-text # Michał Górny (2023-02-03) # Hacky build system that does not work via PEP517 build backend. # No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2023-03-05. Bug #890321. dev-python/pyFFTW # Michał Górny (2023-02-03) # Dead upstream, no active maintainer, no reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2023-03-05. Bug #892916. x11-themes/echo-icon-theme # Michał Górny (2023-02-03) # Dead upstream, no active maintainer, no reverse dependencies, # build issues. # Removal on 2023-03-05. Bug #892918. x11-themes/gtk-engines-nodoka # Michał Górny (2023-02-03) # The package has been archived upstream. It is broken with all Python # versions supported by Gentoo, and it is broken with django-2. # The other listed packages are its reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2023-03-05. Bug #718972. app-misc/gcalcli app-misc/goobook dev-python/gcs-oauth2-boto-plugin dev-python/google-apitools dev-python/google-reauth-python dev-python/oauth2client net-misc/gsutil # Michał Górny (2023-02-02) # dev-python/citeproc-py requires dev-python/nose and is not maintained # upstream. Its only revdep, dev-python/duecredit has no reverse # dependencies left. # Removal on 2023-03-04. Bug #888239. dev-python/citeproc-py dev-python/duecredit # Michał Górny (2023-02-01) # dev-python/blockdiag still requires dev-python/nose. There was a PR # made to switch to pytest in Feb 2020 but it's not progressing at all. # It was needed only for dev-python/aiohttp[doc]. # Removal on 2023-03-03. Bug #888233. dev-python/blockdiag dev-python/sphinxcontrib-blockdiag # Michał Górny (2023-02-01) # Requires legacy setuptools backend. Hacky build system. The only # revdep is dev-python/rdflib where it is entirely optional. # Removal on 2023-03-03. Bug #892854. dev-python/berkeleydb # Andreas Sturmlechner (2023-02-01) # >=5.1 series uses vanilla llvm/clang instead of forked versions. # Removal on 2023-03-02 sys-devel/llvm-roc dev-util/rocm-clang-ocl # Michał Górny (2023-01-31) # No tests, no activity since Aug 2020, no reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2023-03-02. Bug #892744. dev-python/alagitpull # Michał Górny (2023-01-31) # The test suite is broken (async tests don't run). No revdeps. # Removal on 2023-03-02. Bug #892742. dev-python/aiohttp-jinja2 # Ben Kohler (2023-01-30) # Breaks too many revdeps for now =app-text/discount-3* # Sam James (2023-01-29) # Commands trigger an assertion and crashes, bug #892487 =sys-fs/lvm2-2.03.18 # Bernd Waibel (2023-01-28) # Possible security issues, obsolete. Use OpenEXR-3 / Imath instead. # No revdeps and consumers left in ::gentoo # Removal in 30 days. Bug #892375 media-libs/ilmbase # Hans de Graaff (2023-01-28) # No upstream releases since 2010. No longer maintained # upstream. ruby27-only package. Masked for removal on 2023-02-27. dev-ruby/ruby_gntp # Mike Gilbert (2023-01-28) # No upstream releases since 2008. # No Gentoo maintainer since 2009. # Installs files in the wrong places (bug #455542) # and with the wrong mode (bug #892325). # Removal on 2023-02-27. app-admin/bastille # Florian Schmaus (2023-01-27) # Previous dependencies of dev-lang/clojure, now part of the clojure # ebuild and no longer needed. # Removal on 2023-02-27. dev-java/core-specs-alpha dev-java/spec-alpha # Michał Górny (2023-01-26) # Unmaintained. Last release in 2003. The package fails to install # since Aug 2021 and while a fix would be trivial, there does not seem # to have been any interest in it during that period. # Removal on 2023-02-25. Bug #806384. www-misc/wsmake # Michał Górny (2023-01-25) # Unmaintained. Multiple build failure bugs reported. This version # predates 2008. # Removal on 2023-02-24. Bug #837611. sys-cluster/wulfware # David Seifert (2023-01-23) # EOL branch, switch to mariadb-10.4/galera-26.4, removal on 2023-02-22. (2023-01-23) # Please upgrade to >=app-eselect/eselect-wxwidgets-20230114-r1 as -r0 may # lead to build failures. =app-eselect/eselect-wxwidgets-20230114 # Michał Górny (2023-01-21) # Packages that are incompatible with ffmpeg-5. # # media-libs/libextractor: no Gentoo maintainer, ver from 2019, bug #834382 # media-libs/qtav: no Gentoo maintainer, no porting progress, bug #834386 # media-plugins/vdr-vaapidevice: no activity since 2019, bug #834390 # media-sound/potamus: last rel. 2018, one commit in 2020, bug #834396 # media-video/ffmpeg2theora: no activity since 2016, bug #834403 # # Removal on 2023-02-20. media-libs/libextractor media-libs/qtav media-plugins/vdr-vaapidevice media-sound/potamus media-video/ffmpeg2theora # Michał Górny (2023-01-21) # Obsoleted in favor of using extract-on-the-first-run feature # of games-strategy/wargus. # Removal on 2023-02-20. Bug #578340. games-strategy/wargus-data # Hans de Graaff (2023-01-21) # No longer maintained upstream and missing recent security fixes. # Use a newer Rails version instead. # This mask also includes several supporting or rails 5.2-only packages. # Masked for removal after 2023-02-21. dev-ruby/actioncable:5.2 dev-ruby/actionmailer:5.2 dev-ruby/actionpack:5.2 dev-ruby/actionview:5.2 dev-ruby/activejob:5.2 dev-ruby/activemodel:5.2 dev-ruby/activerecord:5.2 dev-ruby/activestorage:5.2 dev-ruby/activesupport:5.2 dev-ruby/rails:5.2 dev-ruby/railties:5.2 dev-ruby/arel =www-apps/redmine-4.2.9 # Alfredo Tupone (2023-01-18) # Masked for removal in 30 days. # Not maintained (2006), no rev dep, bugs # (bug #891283) dev-tcltk/tclperl # David Seifert (2023-01-14) # Py3.8 only backports dev-python/backports-tempfile dev-python/backports-weakref dev-python/backports-zoneinfo dev-python/pkgutil_resolve_name # Andreas Sturmlechner (2023-01-10) # Unmaintained and reportedly broken by KDE Plasma 5.25 already. # Masking current stable version is the first step towards last-rites. # Consider migrating away from latte-dock for your workflow. # See also: https://tinyurl.com/39dkw43a (links to reddit) # Removal on 2023-01-30. =kde-misc/latte-dock-0.10.8* # Jonas Stein (2023-01-09) # Dead upstream, open bugs unmaintained. # Removal after 2023-03-01. Bug #890244. www-client/dillo # Sam James (2023-01-05) # Breaks reverse dependencies: bug #889694, bug #888579. =sys-fs/btrfs-progs-6.1.1 # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2022-12-29) # Upstream is dead, last activity in Nov 2017. Does not # work with newer log4j, bug #857663. Use net-p2p/biglybt # instead. Removal on 2023-02-28. net-p2p/vuze net-p2p/vuze-coreplugins # Sam James (2022-12-27) # Regression in listing subvolumes (no UUIDs), bug #888549 # https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/562 =sys-fs/btrfs-progs-6.1 # 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 # Stephan Hartmann (2023-01-15) # Dev channel releases are only for people who # are developers or want more experimental features # and accept a more unstable release. >=www-client/chromium-111 # Matt Turner (2022-11-16) # Packages or their dependencies have not been ported to libsoup:3.0, while # other non-slotted dependencies have been. media-gfx/gnome-photos media-sound/gnome-music net-libs/libzapojit net-misc/gnome-online-miners # 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/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 >=media-video/bino-2 # 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 # Eray Aslan (2022-01-24) # Mask experimental software =mail-mta/postfix-3.8* # 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