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Removal on 2024-10-23. app-dicts/prime-dict # Michał Górny (2023-09-22) # =dev-python/setuptools-scm-8.0.1 broke compatibility hard but reverted # the changes in 8.0.2. ~dev-python/setuptools-scm-8.0.1 # Joonas Niilola (2023-09-21) # Enigmail's functionality has been built into Thunderbird-68, carrying over # all the way to 115. Enigmail hasn't been supported in TB since 91. It's # currently only supported on SeaMonkey, but upstream provides a pre-packed # extension to download for SM directly. Therefore there's not much reason to # package it in Gentoo, given also the current version is years behind upstream # releases. Bug #914486 # Removal in ~30 days. x11-plugins/enigmail # Jaco Kroon (2023-09-19) # Joonas Niilola (2023-09-21) # DAHDI is not suited for a rolling-release distribution. Upstream releases new # versions sporadically and it may take multiple years between them. Old # versions are constantly broken with newer kernels, requiring heavy patching # downstream. Has no active maintainer in Gentoo. If you use DAHDI and have # some ideas how to help, please see bug #914477. # Removal on 2024-03-01. net-libs/libpri net-misc/dahdi net-misc/dahdi-tools net-misc/openr2 # Ulrich Müller (2023-09-20) # Unmaintained upstream: Last release (2.92) in 2003, last commit # to XEmacs CVS repository in 2008. Broken with Emacs 29. # Masked for removal on 2023-10-20, bug #914449. app-emacs/crypt++ # Bernard Cafarelli (2023-09-19) # Only works with PHP 7, which was dropped from Gentoo # Upstream has no short-term plan to add PHP 8 support # Bug #842882, removal on 2023-10-19. www-apps/owncloud # Michał Górny (2023-09-17) # Core API has not been maintained since 2017, and all the repositories # have been archived in 2019. It remained in ::gentoo only # as an optional test dependency, and all reverse dependencies have been # updated not to depend on it. # Removal on 2023-10-17. Bug #914363. dev-python/coreapi dev-python/coreschema dev-python/itypes # Andreas K. 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Bug #913737. # [0]: https://github.com/ogham/exa/commit/fb05c421ae98e076989eb6e8b1bcf42c07c1d0fe # [1]: https://github.com/eza-community/eza sys-apps/exa # Hans de Graaff (2023-09-10) # Obsolete slot that no longer has any reverse dependencies. Not # compatible with openssl 3. Use the newer slot instead. Masked for # removal on 2023-10-10. dev-ruby/net-ssh:6 # Hans de Graaff (2023-09-10) # Obsolete slot that no longer has any reverse dependencies. Use the # newer slot instead. Masked for removal on 2023-10-10. dev-ruby/mail:2.7 # Sam James (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. (2023-09-09) # Release causes problems, upstream degrated to RC back. # See #913884 for more information =net-wireless/unifi-7.5.174-r1 # David Seifert (2023-09-09) # EOL upstream in 2 months, causes major headaches for OpenSSL 1.1 # masking. Removal on 2023-10-09. dev-lang/php:8.0 virtual/httpd-php:8.0 # David Seifert (2023-09-09) # Depends on PHP 8.0. Removal on 2023-10-09. ~www-apps/tt-rss-20220218 # David Seifert (2023-09-09) # Depends on PHP 8.0, which in turn depends on OpenSSL 1.1, which in # turn is to be masked and removed soon. Removal on 2023-10-09. www-apps/moodle:3.11.16 www-apps/moodle:4.0.10 # Andreas Sturmlechner (2023-09-06) # dev-libs/sink is unmaintained upstream, in Gentoo, fails to build. # Masked for removal on 2023-10-06, together with mail-client/kube and # would-be orphan libraries. Bugs #907499, #904876, #872062, #856094 net-libs/kdav2 net-libs/kimap2 dev-libs/kasync dev-libs/sink mail-client/kube # David Seifert (2023-09-05) # OpenSSL 1.1 based, does not work with 3.0+. tpm2-openssl is the # spiritual successor for OpenSSL 3.0+, but isn't packaged. # Removal on 2023-10-05. app-crypt/tpm2-tss-engine # Florian Schmaus (2023-09-03) # Became a leaf package after dev-erlang/riak_pb was removed (989c0f55e0). # Unmaintained in ::gentoo and upstream since multiple years. Alternative at # https://github.com/tomas-abrahamsson/gpb. # Two open bugs: #725584 and #793236. # Removal on 2023-10-03. dev-erlang/protobuffs # Sam James (2023-08-30) # Used to be a dependency of dev-python/qiskit-terra but is now being phased # out. Fails to build with modern setuptools and >= Python 3.11. No upstream # activity. # Removal on 2023-09-29. Bug #911840, bug #896900. dev-python/tweedledum # Hans de Graaff (2023-08-29) # Obsolete slots that are no longer used by any sinatra version. Use the # newer slot instead. Masked for removal on 2023-09-29. dev-ruby/mustermann:1 dev-ruby/mustermann:2 # Olivier Laurantin (2023-08-29) # Masked for removal on 2023-10-01 # net-wireless/blueberry will never work with recent gnome-bluetooth versions # and is the only package requiring net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth:2 net-wireless/blueberry net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth:2 # Hans de Graaff (2023-08-29) # Use the newer slot instead. Masked for removal on 2023-09-29. dev-ruby/twitter:7 # Sam James (2023-08-29) # Obsolete as of September 2021 when legacy Tor hidden services stopped # working. Now fails to build with latest protobuf too. No upstream activity # since 2017. Alternatives (unvetted) are 'cwtch' and 'ricochet-refreshed' but # neither are packaged. # Removal on 2023-09-28. Bug #830477, bug #913004. net-im/ricochet # Sam James (2023-08-29) # Fails to build with new protobuf. Deprecated by upstream which recommend # sci-biology/kallisto as a replacement. # Removal on 2023-09-28. Bug #912828. sci-biology/express # Michał Górny (2023-08-28) # A shim that is no longer needed. No reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2023-09-27. Bug #906516. dev-python/pytz_deprecation_shim # Sam James (2023-08-18) # Masked for testing. =sys-libs/zlib-1.3-r1 # Jonas Stein (2023-08-17) # Upstream warns that it is broken and there is no fix since 2010 # Removal after 2023-10-01. Bug #912363. app-dicts/edictionary # Sam James (2023-08-04) # Stricter behavior which causes some packages to fail, see bug #911721. =dev-util/pkgconf-2.0.0 # Mike Pagano (2023-07-18) # Mask impacted kernels vulnerable to StackRot and # ones with a memory corruption bug # Bug #909829, #794547. =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.1.28 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.1.37* =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.3* =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-6.1.28 =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-6.1.37* =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-6.3* =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.1.28 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.1.37* =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.4.0 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.4.1* =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.4.2 =sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-6.1.28 =sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-6.1.37* =sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel-6.3* =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-6.1.28 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-6.1.37* =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-6.3* =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-6.4.0 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-6.4.1* =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-6.4.2 =virtual/dist-kernel-6.1.28 =virtual/dist-kernel-6.1.37* =virtual/dist-kernel-6.3* # Andreas K. 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(2023-07-06) # GNOME 45 mask >=app-editors/ghex-45_alpha >=app-misc/gnote-45_alpha >=gnome-extra/gnome-logs-45_alpha >=net-misc/gnome-remote-desktop-45_alpha >=x11-libs/pango-1.51.0 # Sam James (2023-07-05) # Doesn't install all needed files by e.g. kernelshark. # Need to either split into libtracecmd for the libraries or revert to Makefiles. # See bug #909439. =dev-util/trace-cmd-3.2 # Sam James (2023-06-03) # Breaks dev-perl/Spreadsheet-ParseExcel, see bug #909564. # Please upgrade to >=dev-perl/dev-perl/OLE-StorageLite-0.220.0. =dev-perl/OLE-StorageLite-0.210.0 # Michał Górny (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 (2023-06-16) # Please upgrade to >=app-admin/eselect-1.4.22-r1 for a fix to env-update # and the files it generates in /etc/env.d: bug #908401, then run env-update # and . /etc/profile. (2023-06-12) # Buggy version that causes ibdata1 to grow, please update. See bug #908394. =dev-db/mariadb-10.5.20 =dev-db/mariadb-10.6.13 =dev-db/mariadb-10.11.2 =dev-db/mariadb-10.11.3 # Bernd Waibel (2023-05-31) # Mask this version for uptime soversion issue. There will be an updated release # shortly which fixes this. # See https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/Imath/issues/189#issuecomment-1567077722 # Bug: #907211 =dev-libs/imath-3.1.7 # Sam James (2023-05-19) # Breaks Portage's pid-sandbox at least with 5.10 kernels. Pending investigation. # If you're hitting this, try: FEATURES="-pid-sandbox" emerge -v1 sys-apps/util-linux # as a workaround. bug #906797. ~sys-apps/util-linux-2.39 # 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* # Sam James (2023-05-01) # Breaks dev-python/scipy build. See bug #905396 and https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/gast/issues/74. =dev-python/pythran-0.13.0 =dev-python/gast-0.5.4 # Andreas Sturmlechner (2023-04-30) # Breaking even latest ~arch version of KDE PIM, bug #905352. =dev-libs/ktextaddons-1.3* # Michał Górny (2023-04-18) # Breaks ABI without SOVERSION bump, effectively preventing # xfce4-terminal from starting. # https://bugs.gentoo.org/904500 =xfce-base/libxfce4ui-4.19.0 # Sam James (2023-04-16) # SEEK_HOLE issues causing corruption with (sparse?) copies again. # See https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/14753. =sys-fs/zfs-kmod-2.1.10 # Sam James (2023-04-13) # Leads to broken terminal output in e.g. vim and openrc and other applications # like joe crashing. # Bugs: # - reported at bottom of bug #904247 and bug #904263 # - app-misc/tmux: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/3531 # - sys-apps/openrc: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues/619 =sys-libs/ncurses-6.4_p20230424 =sys-libs/ncurses-6.4_p20230506 =sys-libs/ncurses-6.4_p20230527 # Eray Aslan (2023-04-12) # Mask experimental software =mail-mta/postfix-3.9* # 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 # Sam James (2023-03-29) # Regressions in solving ability affecting e.g. igraph: # https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/401 # https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/410 # https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/411 # https://github.com/igraph/igraph/issues/2311 =sci-libs/arpack-3.9.0 # Hans de Graaff (2023-03-19) # This version of cucumber-core is not compatible with the other # cucumber dependencies. 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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 # 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. 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