# Copyright 1999-2024 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 with a format of YYYY-MM-DD, 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 (bug #987654) ## app-misc/some-package #--- END OF EXAMPLES --- # Michał Górny (2024-08-06) # Superseded by dev-libs/libayatana-*. No revdeps left. # Removal on 2024-09-05. Bug #936881. dev-libs/libappindicator dev-libs/libindicator # Michael Orlitzky (2024-08-03) # Unmaintained package. Upstream is not quite _dead_, but the project # domain (where tarballs and documentation were hosted) was hijacked in # 2022 and nothing has been done about it. As a result, the version in # Gentoo is far out of date. Four open bugs, no interest. Removal on # or after 2024-09-03. acct-group/monkeyd acct-user/monkeyd www-servers/monkeyd # Sam James (2024-08-02) # Unreliable software, unmaintained in Gentoo. Having it in the main # repositories may give users an impression of it being a safe tool. # Removal on 2024-09-01. app-backup/mkstage4 # James Le Cuirot (2024-07-29) # Superseded by media-libs/libv4l[utils]. # Removal on 2024-08-29. Bug #936674. media-tv/v4l-utils # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2024-07-29) # Lacks maintainer capacity for update version plus java dependencies. # A pull request for the version bump could be provided on request. # Removal on 2024-08-28. Bug #736076. media-video/bdsup2sub # Eli Schwartz (2024-07-29) # Bad version can result in failing builds. Please upgrade to 72.1.0. =dev-python/ensurepip-setuptools-72.0.0 =dev-python/setuptools-72.0.0 # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2024-07-27) # Stable version stuck on EAPI=6. # Lacks maintainer capacity for dev-lang/scala. # Removal on 2024-08-26. Bugs #932012, #932737, #933607. dev-lang/scala dev-lang/mozart dev-lang/mozart-stdlib # Arthur Zamarin (2024-07-27) # EAPI=6 package, awaits version bump. # Removal on 2024-08-26. Bug #936756. www-apps/rt # Arthur Zamarin (2024-07-27) # EAPI=6, awaits version bump. This is *-macos prefix only package, so # hard to verify EAPI bump without the maintainer. # Removal on 2024-08-26. Bug #936755. dev-debug/gdb-apple # Alfred Wingate (2024-07-24) # Includes change that breaks firewalld notably. # # https://git.netfilter.org/nftables/commit/?id=93560d0117639c8685fc287128ab06dec9950fbd # https://github.com/firewalld/firewalld/issues/1366 # https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/Zp7FqL_YK3p_dQ8B@egarver-mac/ =net-firewall/nftables-1.1.0 # Sam James (2024-07-24) # Fails to build with GCC 15, several open bugs # including test failures. Unpackaged by others. # Removal on 2024-08-23. Bug #936581. app-accessibility/epos # David Seifert (2024-07-22) # Unmaintained, replaced by app-portage/pram which has more features # and works better for merging PRs. Removal on 2024-08-21. dev-perl/Gentoo-App-Pram # Andreas Sturmlechner (2024-07-21) # No more revdeps after net-libs/telepathy-accounts-signon last-rites. # Removal on 2024-08-20. net-libs/libsignon-glib # Hans de Graaff (2024-07-21) # Obsolete slots that are no longer used by any cucumber # version. Removal on 2024-08-21. dev-util/cucumber-core:10 dev-util/cucumber-cucumber-expressions:16 dev-util/cucumber-gherking:22 dev-util/cucumber-html-formatter:20 # Arthur Zamarin (2024-07-20) # EAPI=6, fails to apply patch during src_prepare. # Removal on 2024-08-19. Bugs #936398, #908957, #908959. media-video/raspberrypi-omxplayer # Arthur Zamarin (2024-07-19) # EAPI=6 games. Feel free to drop any package after bumping it's EAPI. # Removal on 2024-08-18. Bug #936299. games-arcade/sdl-sopwith games-arcade/syobon games-arcade/wop games-mud/crystal games-mud/gmudix games-mud/kildclient games-puzzle/color-lines games-puzzle/hangman games-puzzle/magiccube4d games-puzzle/scramble games-puzzle/zaz games-simulation/cannonsmash games-strategy/crimson # Ionen Wolkens (2024-07-18) # Explicit sync currently causes firefox to crash[1][2][3] (should be # improved in >=firefox-130 or so) among others like obs-studio[3], # and is still to be considered experimental. So keeping masked for # the time being while issues are ironed out. # # Feel free to unmask if not affected as it should improve the # experience esp. with Plasma 6 + wayland + nvidia, but please try # 1.1.13 before reporting crashes, freezes, or visual issues (and # bugs should go upstream). # # [1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/issues/110 # [2] https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/issues/117 # [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1898476 # [4] https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/issues/118 # and: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1908825 ~gui-libs/egl-wayland-1.1.14 # Hans de Graaff (2024-07-17) # Obsolete slot. Please use a newer slot instead. No reverse # dependencies left. Removal on 2024-08-17. dev-ruby/rmagick:4 # Eli Schwartz (2024-07-15) # FreeWnn has no activity upstream on its (very slow!) development site # since 2015. Website is gone. Various build failures, fails to build # with gcc 14. All of its reverse dependencies are even more dead, as # they do not even have distfiles anymore. # Removal on 2024-08-14. Bug 936129. # Bug #829613, #854579, #871603, #874114, #934595. app-i18n/freewnn app-i18n/im-freewnn app-dicts/wnn-ldic app-i18n/kinput2 # Hans de Graaff (2024-07-14) # Ancient package, last release ca. 2009. Upstream is gone. All # improvements are now available in dev-ruby/irb itself. # Removal on 2024-08-14. dev-ruby/wirble # Arthur Zamarin (2024-07-13) # Maintainer-needed, depends on very old gui-libs/wlroots version, # no activity upstream since Jan 2022. # Removal on 2024-08-12. Bugs #935921, #867808. gui-wm/hikari # Hans de Graaff (2024-07-12) # Test dependency that is no longer maintained, last release in # 2019. Broken in various ways. No reverse dependencies left. # Removal on 2024-08-12. dev-ruby/rspectacular # Michał Górny (2024-07-12) # Obsoleted by dev-python/pytest-freezer (usually a drop-in replacement). # No reverse dependencies left. # Removal on 2024-08-11. Bug #934604. dev-python/pytest-freezegun # Jaco Kroon (2024-07-11) # Superseded by xl2tpd, this no longer has any operational advantage over # xl2tpd. If you need help you're welcome to contact me (jkroon on # libera.chat). # Removal on 2024-08-11. bugs: #414901, #768075, #919269 net-dialup/openl2tp # Leonardo Hernández Hernández (2024-07-07) # New major ffmpeg version. Tracker bug #928905. >=media-video/ffmpeg-7.0 # Joonas Niilola (2024-07-04) # libxml2-2.13.1 removed "deprecated" symbols that other (older) # packages depend upon. It can be mitigated with a --with-legacy # configure option, but it's still not a perfect fix. Bug #935452 # to track and work on tree-wide support. Masking the exact version # so we can revbump the package with a fix. =dev-libs/libxml2-2.13.1 =dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.41 # Sam James (2024-06-25) # Subvolume printing is broken: https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/829 =sys-fs/btrfs-progs-6.9.1 # Sam James (2024-06-25) # The symbol versioning "fix" breaks anything built with 3.0.0. =dev-libs/libassuan-3.0.1 # Cédric Krier (2023-06-15) # critical regression with potential data loss: # https://lists.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2024-June/297954.html # Bug #934138 ~dev-vcs/mercurial-6.7 ~dev-vcs/mercurial-6.7.1 ~dev-vcs/mercurial-6.7.2 ~dev-vcs/mercurial-6.7.3 # Viorel Munteanu (2024-06-11) # dev-php/pear, dev-php/PEAR-* and their reverse dependencies: mask for removal # in 30 days. # They are all unmaintained, most of the ebuilds are still EAPI 6, and together # they have around 40 bugs. # Removal: 2024-08-11. Bug #933998. dev-php/PEAR-Mail_mimeDecode # Alfredo Tupone (2024-06-09) # Not ready for testing >=dev-lang/ocaml-5 dev-ml/sexplib0:0/0.17 dev-ml/ocaml_intrinsics:0/0.17 dev-ml/ocaml_intrinsics_kernel:0/0.17 dev-ml/base:0/0.17 dev-ml/fieldslib:0/0.17 dev-ml/stdio:0/0.17 >=dev-ml/ocaml-compiler-libs-0.17 >=dev-ml/ppxlib-0.32.1 dev-ml/ppx_cold:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppxlib_jane dev-ml/ppx_compare:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_enumerate:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_globalize:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_sexp_conv:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_hash:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_base:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_fields_conv:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_fixed_literal:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_here:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_let:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_sexp_message:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_sexp_value:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_assert:0/0.17 dev-ml/jane-street-headers:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_optcomp:0/0.17 dev-ml/jst-config:0/0.17 dev-ml/time_now:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_inline_test:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_bench:0/0.17 dev-ml/splittable_random:0/0.17 dev-ml/base_quickcheck:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_stable:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_string:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_expect:0/0.17 dev-ml/parsexp:0/0.17 dev-ml/sexplib:0/0.17 dev-ml/variantslib:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_variants_conv:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_log:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_ignore_instrumentation:0/0.17 dev-ml/typerep:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_typerep_conv:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_tydi:0/0.17 dev-ml/capitalization:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_string_conv:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_stable_witness:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_pipebang:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_optional:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_module_timer:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_disable_unused_warnings:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_custom_printf:0/0.17 dev-ml/bin_prot:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_bin_prot:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_jane:0/0.17 dev-ml/gel:0/0.17 dev-ml/ppx_diff:0/0.17 dev-ml/int_repr:0/0.17 dev-ml/base_bigstring:0/0.17 dev-ml/core:0/0.17 dev-ml/uopt:0/0.17 dev-ml/core_kernel:0/0.17 dev-ml/timezone:0/0.17 dev-ml/sexp_pretty:0/0.17 dev-ml/expect_test_helpers_core:0/0.17 dev-ml/core_unix:0/0.17 dev-ml/async_kernel:0/0.17 dev-ml/async_unix:0/0.17 dev-ml/protocol_version_header:0/0.17 dev-ml/async_rpc_kernel:0/0.17 dev-ml/async_log:0/0.17 dev-ml/textutils:0/0.17 dev-ml/async:0/0.17 >=dev-ml/labltk-8.06.14 dev-ml/patience_diff:0/0.17 >=dev-ml/ppx_deriving-6.0.2 dev-ml/ppx_js_style:0/0.17 # Michał Górny (2024-06-08) # Prereleases of Xfce 4.20. Masking upon popular request, due to # a large number of regressions in every new release. >=dev-build/xfce4-dev-tools-4.19 >=xfce-base/exo-4.19 >=xfce-base/garcon-4.19 >=xfce-base/libxfce4ui-4.19 >=xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.19 >=xfce-base/thunar-4.19 >=xfce-base/tumbler-4.19 >=xfce-base/xfce4-appfinder-4.19 >=xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.19 >=xfce-base/xfce4-power-manager-4.19 >=xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.19 >=xfce-base/xfce4-settings-4.19 >=xfce-base/xfconf-4.19 >=xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.19 # Sam James (2024-04-28) # Masked for testing. Tracker bug: bug #930805. >=sys-libs/ncurses-6.5 # Michał Górny (2024-04-11) # Contains a bug that could render the kernel fail to boot. # https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202403221630.2692c998-oliver.sang@intel.com/ # The fix is: # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e7d24c0aa8e678f41457d1304e2091cac6fd1a2e =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.6.26 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-6.6.26 =sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-6.6.26 =sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-6.8.5 # Sam James (2024-03-28) # Newer 5.4.x releases were signed by a potentially compromised upstream maintainer. # There is no evidence that these releases contain malicious code, but masked # out of an abundance of caution. See bug #928134. sec-keys/openpgp-keys-jiatan ~app-arch/xz-utils-5.4.3 ~app-arch/xz-utils-5.4.4 ~app-arch/xz-utils-5.4.5 ~app-arch/xz-utils-5.4.6 # Sam James (2024-03-28) # Backdoor discovered in release tarballs. DOWNGRADE NOW. # https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/928134 ~app-arch/xz-utils-5.5.1_alpha ~app-arch/xz-utils-5.5.2_beta ~app-arch/xz-utils-5.6.0 ~app-arch/xz-utils-5.6.1 # Eray Aslan (2024-03-10) # Mask experimental software =mail-mta/postfix-3.10* # Sam James (2023-12-14) # Gentoo's kernel maintainers have decided to discontinue gentoo-sources and # gentoo-kernel for old kernel LTS branches because of the resources to require # testing and patching them, combined with changing kernel lifecycles. # # The new policy is to support kernels with genpatches for 3 years after their # release. # # Specifically, 4.14/4.19/5.4 have been dropped. See https://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=315 # and http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2018/08/24/what-stable-kernel-should-i-use/. # # sys-kernel/vanilla-sources will continue to be provided for all branches # until they reach formal upstream EOL. # (2023-11-19) # GCC 10 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 11. (2023-09-09) # OpenSSL 1.1.x is EOL on 2023-09-11. Please upgrade immediately to >= OpenSSL 3. # https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/03/28/1.1.1-EOL/ # https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/06/15/1.1.1-EOL-Reminder/ # Please run a full world upgrade, especially checking /etc/portage and your world file # for old PHP or Ruby references. (2023-07-12) # The catalyst-3 branch is outdated and not used by Gentoo # Release Engineering anymore. Please either use git master # (9999) as all Release Engineering build machines or wait # for catalyst-4. Questions or bug reports about catalyst-3 # may or may not lead to useful results. (2023-06-21) # suitesparseconfig-7.0.0 fails to build with multilib enabled # because of dependencies that cannot be satisfied. All the other # packages require it. Bug #908851. =sci-libs/amd-3.0.3 =sci-libs/btf-2.0.3 =sci-libs/camd-3.0.3 =sci-libs/ccolamd-3.0.3 =sci-libs/cholmod-4.0.3 =sci-libs/colamd-3.0.3 =sci-libs/cxsparse-4.0.3 =sci-libs/klu-2.0.3 =sci-libs/ldl-3.0.3 =sci-libs/spqr-3.0.3 =sci-libs/suitesparseconfig-7.0.0 =sci-libs/umfpack-6.1.0 # 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 # Ionen Wolkens (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 # Ben Kohler (2023-01-30) # Breaks too many revdeps for now =app-text/discount-3* # Joonas Niilola (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 # 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 # 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 # Andreas K. Hüttel (2021-09-18) # dev-build/automake version 1.11 is EOL and is only useful for testing # old de-ANSI-fication/ansi2knr/AM_C_PROTOTYPES code. Please uninstall. dev-build/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 # 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 sys-devel/clang-crossdev-wrappers