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No fix has been committed upstream and other software like Plymouth # has been broken with eudev for some time because of this missing support. # See bug #913702. # # Removal on 2023-10-11. sys-fs/eudev # Leonardo Hernández Hernández (2023-09-10) # Upstream has marked this packaged as unmaintained[0] and recommends usage of # the active fork eza[1] available as sys-apps/eza # Please transition to the new package. # Removal: 2023-10-10. 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. 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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 # 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. 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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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