# Copyright 1999-2021 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, 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 --- # 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 # Sam James (2021-07-26) # Fails to build with GCC 11. No activity upstream. # Removal on 2021-08-26. bug #740536, bug #624746. media-sound/tapestrea # Sam James (2021-07-26) # Rather out of date, several open bugs, fails to build with GCC 11. # Removal in 2021-08-26. # bug #793020, bug #692976, bug #741600, bug #703948, bug #674334. sci-misc/tango # Sam James (2021-07-26) # Fails to build with GCC 11. # Removal on 2021-08-26. bug #788577. net-im/minbif # Sam James (2021-07-26) # No activity upstream. No reverse dependencies (library). # Fails to build with GCC 11. # Removal on 2021-08-26. bug #787113, bug #735714, bug #657510. dev-cpp/libxsd-frontend # John Helmert III (2021-07-26) # Open security bug, service backing it seems to be dead, making these # packages useless. Old EAPIs. Removal on 2021-08-26. Bug #630814 app-portage/getdelta app-portage/deltup # John Helmert III (2021-07-26) # Maintained needed, open security bug, uninterested upstream. # No revdeps. Removal on 2021-08-26. Bug #752408. app-text/lout # David Seifert (2021-07-26) # Fails to build with GCC 11, terrible codebase, tests fail with # modern ImageMagick, last release over 12 years ago. # Bug #725436, #786915, removal in 30 days. sci-electronics/drawtiming # Sam James (2021-07-25) # No activity upstream since 2014. Fails to build with GCC 11. # Only one reverse dependency (media-libs/openexr_ctl) which # is uninstallable. # Removal on 2021-08-25. bug #789792, bug #715298. media-libs/ctl media-libs/openexr_ctl # Michał Górny (2021-07-25) # Conflicts with dev-python/pyxdg. Upstream is unwilling to resolve # this. The only revdep has been patched to use pyxdg. # Removal on 2021-08-24. Bug #804127. dev-python/xdg # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2021-07-24) # API, its only consumer is last-rited # removal in 30 days dev-java/jsr101 # Michał Górny (2021-07-23) # Abandoned. All versions are vulnerable to CVE-2021-33909. # sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel{,-bin} are the suggested replacements. # Removal on 2021-08-06. Bug #803212. sys-kernel/bliss-kernel-bin # Conrad Kostecki (2021-07-23) # Outdated and multiple bugs open. # Other alternatives in tree available. # Removal in 30 days (2021-08-22) www-servers/resin # Alfredo Tupone (2021-07-23) # Requirements conflicts so it is not buildable # No revdep. Retire in 30 days (2021-08-22) dev-ml/cstruct # Marek Szuba (2021-07-18) # No gtk4 and friends in the tree yet >=media-sound/easyeffects-6.0.0 # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-18) # Compatibility package for ruby 1.8. No longer maintained upstream. # Last release in 2016, but current release in gentoo is from 2012. # No reverse dependencies. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/sfl # William Hubbs (2021-07-17) # Does not build and has multiple open bugs including a security issue. # Dead upstream (last release in 2006). # Removal in 30 days (2021-08-16) (bug #602594). app-accessibility/eflite # Andreas K. Hüttel (2021-07-17) # Obsolete; all versions in current Perl core distributions # are newer, and no virtuals currently pull these packages. # Removal in 30 days. perl-core/Archive-Tar perl-core/CPAN-Meta perl-core/CPAN-Meta-Requirements perl-core/Data-Dumper perl-core/Digest perl-core/Digest-MD5 perl-core/Digest-SHA perl-core/Dumpvalue perl-core/Encode perl-core/ExtUtils-Constant # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-17) # Deprecated upstream, replaced with factory_bot. # Last release in 2017, no dependencies. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/factory_girl # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-17) # Deprecated upstream, no longer needed with rspec 2+ # Last release in 2016, factory_girl was last dependency. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/bourne # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2021-07-16) # library with no consumer, multiple vulnerabilities # removal in 30 days (bug #713098) dev-java/xmlrpc # Kai Krakow (2021-07-16) # To be replaced by net-p2p/go-ipfs, no migration needed. # Simply deselect the masked package and install the replacement. # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #802381 net-p2p/go-ipfs-bin # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-15) # Dead upstream, no longer maintained, last release in 2013. # No dependencies. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/spork # John Helmert III (2021-07-14) # Dead upstream, unfixed security issue. # Removal on 2021-08-13. Bugs #755896, #781467. net-proxy/polipo # Marek Szuba (2021-07-14) # New, considerably refactored major version with a new build system. # Masked for further testing. >=sci-libs/pastix-6.0.0 # Marco Scardovi (2021-07-13) # These packages were only ported for netbox. Not useful for anything else # No revdeps. Removal in 30 days (Bug #801991) dev-python/markuppy dev-python/tablib # Andrew Ammerlaan (2021-07-12) # Version 3.3.0 suffers from ridiculously high CPU usage, this version has # therefore been retracted upstream. # https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron/issues/2068 # https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron/issues/2070 =net-im/rocketchat-desktop-bin-3.3.0 # Marek Szuba (2021-07-12) # No releases since March 2015, no upstream repo activity since November # 2019. Unmaintained in Gentoo. Depends on effectively EOLed Lua 5.2, # fails to build against any other version. Removal in 30 days (Bug #801883) app-crypt/cardpeek # Marek Szuba (2021-07-12) # Effectively EOL, no packages in the tree strictly require this # particular version. Removal, of both the ebuilds and target support, # in 30 days (bug #801865). dev-lang/lua:5.2 # Craig Andrews (2021-07-10) # Masked until November, 2021 # This release adds enforcement of the Taproot protocol change to the Bitcoin # rules, beginning in November. Protocol changes require user consent to be # effective, and if enforced inconsistently within the community may compromise # your security or others! If you do not know what you are doing, learn more # before November. (You must make a decision either way - simply not upgrading # is insecure in all scenarios.) # To learn more, see https://bitcointaproot.cc >=net-p2p/bitcoind-0.21.1 >=net-p2p/bitcoin-qt-0.21.1 >=net-libs/libbitcoinconsensus-0.21.1 # Lars Wendler (2021-07-10) # Masked for testing >=mail-client/claws-mail-4.0.0 # Craig Andrews (2021-07-09) # deprecated; replaced by media-plugins/kodi-audiodecoder-sacd # No reverse dependencies # See https://bugs.gentoo.org/801406 # Masked for removal in 30 days. media-plugins/kodi-vfs-sacd # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-09) # Last release in 2016. Tests fail with recent git versions. # No reverse dependencies, no maintainer. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-vcs/git-num # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-09) # Last release in 2014 and no longer supported upstream. Obsolete CSS # framework with known issues. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/compass dev-ruby/compass-core dev-ruby/compass-import-once # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-09) # Mask ruby25 for removal. This version is no longer supported # upstream. Use a newer ruby version, e.g ruby26. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-lang/ruby:2.5 =dev-ruby/rubygems-2.7* dev-ruby/did_you_mean:2.5 # Pacho Ramos (2021-07-08) # Doesn't support Gnome 40, use gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng # instead. Removal in 30 days. gnome-extra/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons # Pacho Ramos (2021-07-08) # Doesn't support Gnome 40, use gnome-shell-extension-appindicator instead # (also supports legacy tray icons). Removal in 30 days. gnome-extra/gnome-shell-extensions-topicons-plus # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-07) # Security bug CVE-2015-9284, bug 761960. Use slot 2 instead. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/omniauth:0 # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-06) # Obsolete slot, no dependencies. Use dev-ruby/http:4 instead. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/http:3 # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-06) # Last release in 2013, no tests, no dependencies. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/nagios # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-06) # Last release in 2013, no tests, no dependencies. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/notify # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-06) # Last release in 2013, all dependencies have switched to rash_alt. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/rash # 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 # Aaron W. Swenon (2021-07-05) # PostgreSQL 9.5 has reached end of life and will no longer receive any # updates -- security or otherwise -- from upstream or Gentoo. # You should migrate immediately. # https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PostgreSQL/QuickStart#Post-9.0_Migration # For more information about PostgreSQL's versioning policy, see: # https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/# # Removal after 2021-08-04. dev-db/postgresql:9.5 # Michał Górny (2021-07-06) # Various Python 2-specific backports. All the reverse dependencies # (except for deps between these packages) have been eliminated. # Removal on 2021-08-05. Bug #800698. dev-python/contextlib2 dev-python/linecache2 dev-python/pathlib2 dev-python/traceback2 dev-python/unittest2 # Sergei Trofimovich (2021-07-05) # The platform is outdated and not maintained anymore. # Mask for removal in 30 days. dev-haskell/haskell-platform # Georgy Yakovlev (2021-07-04) # severely broken nfs # possibly depper problem due to bug in mm/page_alloc # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ff4b2b4014cbffb3d32b22629252f4dc8616b0fe # feel free to unmask if required, but be aware of # possible silent data corruption =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.13.0 =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.13.0 # Matt Turner (2021-07-04) # Not used by any package. Has not worked for a very long time # as far as I can tell. # Removal on 2021-08-04 app-eselect/eselect-xvmc # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-04) # Last release in 2016, failing tests, no dependencies. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/shotgun # Hans de Graaff (2021-07-04) # Last release in 2012, no working tests, no dependencies. # Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-ruby/source_map # Sergei Trofimovich (2021-07-02) # Outdated, not really maintained. Grab it if you like. # Masked for removal in 30 days. bug #800097. x11-plugins/purple-mattermost # Sergei Trofimovich (2021-07-02) # Masked for removal in 30 days. media-sound/xmms2-scrobbler # David Seifert (2021-07-01) # Berkeley DB slots that are long past EOL by Oracle, # maintenance burden, and no real path forward by Oracle. # Bug #792222, removal in 90 days. sys-libs/db:1 sys-libs/db:3 sys-libs/db:4.2 sys-libs/db:4.3 sys-libs/db:4.4 sys-libs/db:4.5 sys-libs/db:4.6 sys-libs/db:4.7 sys-libs/db:5.1 # Matthias Maier (2021-06-27) # Last release in 2013. Fails to build. No reverse dependencies. # Bugs #735260 # Removal on 2021-07-27 media-sound/loudness-scanner # Marek Szuba (2021-06-25) # Unslotted version conflicting with lua eclasses. # No revdeps left. EAPI 5. Removal in 30 days (Bug #798693) dev-lang/lua:0 # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2021-06-21) # library with no consumer, removal in 30 days # see https://bugs.gentoo.org/794562 dev-java/bctsp # Miroslav Šulc (2021-06-23) # obsolete, no consumers # see bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/797739 dev-java/xml-commons # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2021-06-21) # libraries without consumers, removal in 30 days dev-java/bytelist dev-java/jcodings dev-java/joni dev-java/jvyamlb # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2021-06-20) # no consumer, removal in 30 days # see bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/796587 # and https://bugs.gentoo.org/561504 dev-java/annogen dev-java/xml-xmlbeans java-virtuals/stax-api dev-java/jsr173 dev-java/jibx-tools # Conrad Kostecki (2021-06-20) # New Minecraft server release needs at least Java 16, # which is currently not available in Gentoo. >=games-server/minecraft-server-1.17 # Davide Pesavento (2021-06-15) # Masked for revdep testing. >=dev-python/sip-6 # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2021-06-14) # DeprecatedDep jre-1.3, upstream dead,removal in 30 days # see bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/787410 media-gfx/povtree # Sam James (2021-06-12) # Masked until all reverse dependencies support # OCaml 4.12. # bug #795138 >=dev-lang/ocaml-4.12 =dev-ml/camlp4-4.12 # Stephan Hartmann (2021-06-05) # Dev channel releases are only for people who # are developers or want more experimental features # and accept a more unstable release. >=www-client/chromium-93 # Bernard Cafarelli (2021-06-04) # Alpha versions of fetchmail 7 # Add support for OAUTH2 for those needing it =net-mail/fetchmail-7.0.0_alpha* # Sam James (2021-06-01) # Possible issues with new ALSA release # See bug #793410 =media-libs/alsa-lib-1.2.5_p20210604 =media-libs/alsa-topology-conf-1.2.5 =media-libs/alsa-ucm-conf-1.2.5-r1 =media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.2.5 =media-sound/alsa-utils-1.2.5-r1 # Michał Górny (2021-05-31) # Requires removed media-libs/opencv version. (2021-05-24) # it's just a demo project, not a real app, see disclaimer # at https://github.com/romainguy/jext # removal in 30 days # also removing an obsolete package that has only this dependant # see bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/791106 app-editors/jext dev-java/jgoodies-looks:1.2 # Miroslav Šulc (2021-05-20) # no non-masked consumer, removal in 30 days # see bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/786852 dev-java/sun-jimi # Miroslav Šulc (2021-05-20) # no non-masked consumer, removal in 30 days # see bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/786828 dev-java/squareness-jlf # Miroslav Šulc (2021-05-19) # no consumer, removal in 30 days # see bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/784065 dev-java/werken-xpath # Sergei Trofimovich (2021-05-16) # Mask gcc-7 branch (ended upstream support). Please switch # to a freshed gcc branch. (2021-05-16) # Mask gcc-6 branch (ended upstream support). Please switch # to a freshed gcc branch. (2021-05-09) # Not working properly with cmake.eclass port # bug #788448 =app-arch/brotli-1.0.9-r3 # Sam James (2021-05-07) # Masked for testing. Two major releases ahead of last packaged version. # Please report bugs but this is experimental for now. # bug #731266 >=net-mail/cyrus-imapd-3.4.0 # David Seifert (2021-05-05) # Causes unsolvable package conflicts, bug #788310 >=media-libs/openexr-3 # Eray Aslan (2021-04-29) # Mask experimental software =mail-mta/postfix-3.7* # Ulrich Müller (2021-04-20) # Version 3.15 is broken with Emacs 27.2. =app-emacs/mic-paren-3.15-r0 # Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2021-04-18) # dev-java/xerces-2.12.1 depends on masked >=virtual/{jdk,jre}-11 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/782697 >=dev-java/xerces-2.12.1 # Lars Wendler (2021-04-08) # Masked for testing >=app-crypt/gnupg-2.3.0 # 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 # 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 (2021-03-03) # Doesn't seem to sync clock correctly # in some cases. # bug #772998 ~net-misc/openntpd-6.8_p1 # 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 >=sci-geosciences/qmapshack-1.16 # 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* # 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 # 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 # 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 # Stefan Strogin (2020-02-12) # Mask for testing revdeps. >=dev-games/mygui-3.4.0 # Lars Wendler (2019-11-14) # Breaks archives containing relative paths # when being called with --no-absolute-filenames # bug #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 # 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* # 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