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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 --- # David Seifert (2021-03-13) # Integrated into >=sys-apps/hwloc-2, completely broken, unmaintained, # no revdeps. Removal in 14 days. Bug #721938, #722916, #732046. sys-apps/netloc # Sam James (2021-03-13) # Stuck on oasis.eclass, out of date # No reverse dependencies # bug #775785 # Removal in 14 days. Nothing should really # be able to use any of these right now anyway. 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 # Stuck on old oasis.eclass # bug #749696, #711414 dev-ml/ocaml-re # Dependencies of Oasis itself dev-ml/ocamlify dev-ml/ocamlmod dev-ml/ocaml-expect dev-ml/oasis # Please port your applications to dev-ml/ounit2 # Should be a case of just a sed in most cases 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 dev-ruby/ruby-oci8 # Hans de Graaff (2021-03-11) # Last upstream release in 2018, uses outdated dependencies.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 dev-ruby/nexpose # Hans de Graaff (2021-03-08) # No longer maintained upstream, last release in 2014.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 # Mike Pagano (2021-03-04) # This kernel version could corrupt your # filesystem by overwritting it with # random swap data =sys-kernel/git-sources-5.12_rc1 # 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 (2021-02-28) # games-strategy/0ad-data has been merged # into games-strategy/0ad for simplicity. # Note that in most cases, the latter uses # upstream pre-built assets anyway. # Nothing should really be using this. # bug #735352, bug #768930 # Removal in 14 days. games-strategy/0ad-data # Bernd Waibel (2021-02-27) # Mask until removal of media-gfx/openexr_viewers. # Version has several vulnerabilities. See #717474 =media-libs/ilmbase-2.3.0 # Bernd Waibel (2021-02-27) # Mask until removal of media-gfx/openexr_viewers. # Version has several vulnerabilities. See #717474 =media-libs/openexr-2.3.0 # Bernd Waibel (2021-02-27) # No longer actively supported upstream. # Removal needed to clean-up {ilmbase,openexr}-2.3.0 # Masked for removal in 30 days. media-gfx/openexr_viewers # Sam James (2021-02-27) # Fails to build with GCC 10 (or otherwise!) # bug #708508, bug #728026, bug #542280 # Removal in 30 days sci-mathematics/ggnfs # Sam James (2021-02-27) # Fails to build with GCC 10, out of date. # bug #723192, bug #737058 # Removal in 30 days dev-lang/ats # Sam James (2021-02-27) # Broken with newer(?) dev-scheme/guile, dead upstream # bug #642736, bug #773196 # Removal in 30 days dev-scheme/greg # David Seifert (2021-02-25) # Unmaintained, python 3.7 only, relies on wrong libgd, which isn't # packaged. Removal on 2021-03-27. Bug #683358, #696476, #741936. sys-auth/authenticator # David Seifert (2021-02-25) # Last release in 2006, no other distro carries this anymore, # blocks sci-libs/fftw:2.1 removal, no revdeps. # Removal on 2021-03-27. Bug #731038, #772812. media-gfx/videorbits # Matthew Thode (2021-02-22) # Removing unneeded packages from tree Bug #772200 # Removal on 2021-03-22 dev-python/mox3 dev-python/nosexcover dev-python/oslo-sphinx dev-python/os-diskconfig-python-novaclient-ext # David Seifert (2021-02-21) # Drive-by addition, never maintained by maintainer, tests failing, # missing dependencies, python3.7 only, no reverse dependencies. # Removal on 2021-03-23. Bug #738004, #751316, #766989. dev-python/moviepy # Michał Górny (2021-02-19) # Xfce 4.16 has the same functionality built-in, rendering the plugin # redundant. # Removal on 2021-03-21. Bug #767412. xfce-extra/xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin # 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 (2021-02-07) # Fails tests (and does not seem to test the old installed version # at least partially). Needs further testing. >=dev-python/numpy-1.20 # 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 # Ulrich Müller (2021-01-29) # Preliminary test versions, masked for testing. ~app-editors/emacs-27.1.91 ~app-editors/emacs-27.1.92 ~app-editors/emacs-27.1.93 # 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 (2021-01-29) # Dev channel releases are only for people who # are developers or want more experimental features # and accept a more unstable release. >=www-client/chromium-90 # 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 # 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. (2017-01-07) # 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