Dead packages

This page lists packages that have been removed from this overlay for various reasons. You can use it to find pointers to their new locations for moved packages, or perhaps to find the last available ebuild if they were simply culled.

Warning

This document is almost entirely generated using git show. If an entry doesn’t make sense take a look at the referenced commit for the full context.

app-admin

stow

This was causing problems with the kinesis resolver.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:6a24dd9c Removal date:2011-09-13

app-misc

libeatmydata

Now available upstream. The upgrade path is very messy, and the package will be maintained in ::shadow for the foreseeable future.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:a95b3182 Removal date:2012-10-16

app-text

gist

Maintenance is passing to mleighy‘s group.

Reason:Moved to ::live Commit:3bdea61f Removal date:2011-09-13

sphinxcontrib-issuetracker

sphinxcontrib-issuetracker now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path is clean. The ebuild will exist in ::shadow until a version with matching keywords is available upstream.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:8a2dc994 Removal date:2012-04-07

app-vim

rails

This was causing problems with the kinesis resolver.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:274adfb0 Removal date:2011-09-13

snipmate

Available in the main tree.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:9073e7c0 Removal date:2011-09-13

dev-lua

luainotify

No longer used at our site.

Reason:Culled Commit:6d283863 Removal date:2013-01-03

luaposix

luaposix now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path is bad. The ebuild will exist in ::shadow for the foreseeable future.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:f1c1ff22 Removal date:2017-03-08

luasocket

Available in the main tree.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:e6cbe716 Removal date:2009-09-29

dev-haskell

configfile

Only used by hpodder, which has been removed.

Reason:Culled Commit:9f861263 Removal date:2010-09-24

hpodder

Haskell support was too brittle to keep this, and castget is a reasonable replacement.

Reason:Culled Commit:ecf3e688 Removal date:2010-09-24

missingh

Only used by hpodder, which has been removed.

Reason:Culled Commit:fbe106cc Removal date:2010-09-24

dev-perl

Net-Twitter-Lite

No longer used at our site.

Reason:Culled Commit:fd868494 Removal date:2012-04-14

dev-python

argh

An ebuild is now available upstream, unfortunately the upgrade path is currently unusable as it uses the bundled version of six.

It will be maintained there until a usable upgrade path is available, including matching keywords.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:b28c2424 Removal date:2012-10-06

async

This was causing problems with the kinesis resolver.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:7ef5cf4b Removal date:2011-09-13

behave

Package has been dead here for some time, with all RDEPs long since dropped. No custom upgrade path is required.

Reason:Available upstream Commit:a8855a4b Removal date:2015-05-23

blessings

Now available upstream. This package will be maintained in ::shadow until visibility is matched and upstream’s dependencies are fixed.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:c66b472b Removal date:2015-05-23

bpython

Its line editing support is quite weak, and it provides little benefit over the standard python interpreter. The level of maintenance needed was higher than the benefit it gave.

Reason:Culled Commit:36cf5f2e Removal date:2009-08-12

cleancss

It didn’t support enough CSS syntax to be usable for our needs.

Reason:Culled Commit:38a03c83 Removal date:2010-09-21

clevercss2

The implementation was not suitable for our needs

Reason:Culled Commit:89dffdfd Removal date:2010-09-21

colorama

An ebuild is now available upstream. It isn’t a drop in replacement, so this will be maintained in ::shadow for the foreseeable future.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:d2f0a364 Removal date:2013-02-18 Issues:GitHub #750

cov-core

An ebuild is now available upstream. Unfortunately it can’t be used as it has incorrect dependencies, invalid Python configuration and broken subprocess support.

It will be maintained there until a usable upgrade path is available, including matching keywords.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:ccb15265 Removal date:2012-12-03

dexml

dexml now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path is clean. The ebuild will exist in ::shadow until a version with matching keywords is available upstream.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:b4dce3d5 Removal date:2016-04-06

dulwich

Available in the main tree.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:d7b758ee Removal date:2010-01-05

feedgenerator

feedgenerator now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path is clean. The ebuild will exist in ::shadow until a version with matching keywords is available upstream.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:f8628c6 Removal date:2012-07-20 Issues:GitHub #639

flake8

The shadowed ebuild will exist until upstream’s has matching visibility at the very least.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:593791d2 Removal date:2013-10-23 Issues:GitHub #814

funcparserlib

The shadowed ebuild will exist until upstream’s has matching visibility at the very least.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:0050e9ef Removal date:2013-10-23 Issues:GitHub #815

fuzzywuzzy

fuzzywuzzy now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path is clean. The ebuild will exist in ::shadow until a version with matching keywords is available upstream.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:872df022 Removal date:2017-03-08

gevent

This was only required by requests, which has been removed.

Reason:Culled Commit:8373189c Removal date:2012-01-16

gistapi

Masked for removal because the dependencies in new releases aren’t supported on our deploy systems.

Reason:Culled Commit:df715ff0 Removal date:2011-05-10

gitdb

This was causing problems with the kinesis resolver.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:1bdc71fe Removal date:2011-09-13

github2

github2 now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path is ugly. No Python 3 support in Gentoo’s httplib2, no built docs, no 2.4 or 2.5 support. Will be supported for the foreseeable future.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:fc7d12f8 Removal date:2012-02-26 Issues:GitHub #551

git-python

This was causing problems with the kinesis resolver.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:3384cfe9 Removal date:2011-09-13

httpretty

Package has been dead here for some time, with all RDEPs long since dropped. No upgrade path is required.

Reason:Available upstream Commit:c833f279 Removal date:2014-02-23 Issues:GitHub #837

importlib

Python 2.6 has been removed upstream, so this package is no longer required.

Reason:Culled Commit:5b79084f Removal date:2014-07-08

isodate

Now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path isn’t very clean, and this package will be supported for the foreseeable future.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:d639d9f5 Removal date:2012-05-30 Issues:GitHub #613

kitchen

kitchen now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path is clean. The ebuild will exist in ::shadow until a version with matching keywords is available upstream.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:b55f9811 Removal date:2017-03-08

logbook

This was causing problems with the kinesis resolver.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:bd89ae1b Removal date:2012-01-16

mccabe

The shadowed ebuild will exist until upstream’s has matching visibility at the very least.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:948f5c6c Removal date:2013-10-23 Issues:GitHub #816

misaka

Package has been dead here for some time, with all RDEPs long since dropped. No upgrade path is required.

Reason:Available upstream Commit:69e3fc67 Removal date:2014-02-23 Issues:GitHub #838

multiprocessing

Python 2.5 has been removed upstream, so this package is no longer required.

Reason:Culled Commit:eaee27c9 Removal date:2013-09-06

nose2

nose2 now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path is clean. The ebuild will exist in ::shadow until a version with matching keywords is available upstream.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:5799e1e4 Removal date:2016-04-06

nose2-cov

Recent nose2 versions bundle the coverage plugin.

Reason:Culled Commit:92640fb7 Removal date:2016-04-06

parse

The shadowed ebuild will exist until upstream’s has matching visibility at the very least.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:d37eff57 Removal date:2014-11-03 Issues:GitHub #847

pep8

This was causing problems with the kinesis resolver.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:7b637d57 Removal date:2011-09-13

pgmagick

The shadowed ebuild will exist until upstream’s has matching visibility at the very least.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:b22f767f Removal date:2013-10-23 Issues:GitHub #817

poster

This was only needed by requests, which has been removed.

Reason:Culled Commit:0195603d Removal date:2012-01-16

prettytable

An ebuild is now available upstream.

Reason:Culled Commit:57e69871 Removal date:2012-12-03

pycallgraph

The shadowed ebuild will exist until upstream’s has matching visibility at the very least.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:e7c0f93e Removal date:2014-11-03 Issues:GitHub #848

pycparser

pycparser now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path isn’t clean. The ebuild will exist in ::shadow for the foreseeable future.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:b27b6de2 Removal date:2012-07-31 Issues:GitHub #643

python-gnupg

Alternatives exist, maintenance costs higher than benefit.

Reason:Culled Commit:c350e281 Removal date:2010-12-05

python-osmgpsmap

The shadowed ebuild will exist until upstream’s osm-gps-map has matching visibility, and all dependencies are updated to use it.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:313b903a Removal date:2013-04-24

rednose

Doesn’t work correctly with doctests, alternatives exist.

Reason:Culled Commit:343993fe Removal date:2010-10-21

requests

New releases bundle libraries, which makes supporting this package quite laborious and prone to error. Releases at the time of removal were not very stable.

See mleighy if you need help porting packages with dependencies on requests to alternatives.

Reason:Culled Commit:050c16c7 Removal date:2012-01-16

restview

Buggy in places, and upstream is unfortunately on launchpad. rstctl provides similar functionality.

Reason:Culled Commit:9271790e Removal date:2011-02-28

rudolf

Significantly increased nose run time, and broke reporting for other plugins we commonly used.

Reason:Culled Commit:646671c0 Removal date:2010-10-21

scripttest

This was causing problems with the kinesis resolver.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:088ab46a Removal date:2011-09-13

six

Now packaged upstream.

This will remain in ::shadow until upstream has an ebuild available with equal keywords

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:dafa80f2 Removal date:2012-05-31 Issues:GitHub #614

socksipy

The shadowed ebuild will exist until upstream’s has matching visibility at the very least.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:f02b5f49 Removal date:2013-10-23 Issues:GitHub #818

sphinx-to-github

Maintenance is passing to mleighy‘s group.

Reason:Moved to ::live Commit:740ada6b Removal date:2011-09-13

sphinxcontrib-cheeseshop

Now available upstream. The upgrade path is decidedly messy, and the package will be maintained in ::shadow for the foreseeable future.

Reason:

Moved to ::shadow

Commit:

commit:

Removal date:

2015-03-06

sphinxcontrib-httpdomain

The shadowed ebuild will exist until upstream’s has matching visibility at the very least.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:56ea0e11 Removal date:2013-06-11

sure

Package has been dead here for some time, with all RDEPs long since dropped. No upgrade path is required.

Reason:Available upstream Commit:966db0f4 Removal date:2014-02-23 Issues:GitHub #839

termcolor

An ebuild is now available upstream. It isn’t a drop in replacement as it has incorrect PYTHON_COMPAT values and is missing documentation, so this will be maintained in ::shadow for the foreseeable future.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:350f353 Removal date:2013-03-06 Issues:{issue.title} (#{issue.id})

termstyle

Unfortunately no longer packaged in a standard manner, and plenty of alternatives exist.

Reason:Culled Commit:06e15f17 Removal date:2010-12-04

texttable

The shadowed ebuild will exist until upstream’s has matching visibility at the very least.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:82edcb9e Removal date:2014-11-03 Issues:GitHub #849

tox

Available in the main tree.

This will remain in ::shadow until upstream has an ebuild available with equal keywords.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:b65bcbc0 Removal date:2012-03-05

tweepy

An ebuild is now available upstream. Unfortunately it can’t be used as it bundles dependencies.

It will be maintained there until a usable upgrade path is available, including matching keywords.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:f961a594 Removal date:2012-12-03

twython

The latest release, 1.4.6, has unsupported dependencies and as such is unusable on our systems. Alternatives include tweepy, which is available in this overlay.

Reason:Culled Commit:090e1c3c Removal data:2012-03-02

virtualenv5

No longer needed by tox.

Reason:Culled Commit:fe12bc3b Removal date:2011-06-28

virtualenvwrapper

An ebuild is now available upstream, unfortunately the upgrade path is incredibly messy. Upstream’s ebuild installs to invalid paths, has incorrect python dependencies and doesn’t include documentation.

This package was already masked for removal in 5b1273c, but the breakage introduced now means it is moving to ::shadow immediately. It will be maintained there until a usable upgrade path is available.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:409c46c3 Removal date:2012-03-20

webcolors

Now available upstream. This package will be maintained in ::shadow until visibility is matched and upstream’s dependencies are fixed.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:681391b2 Removal date:2015-09-16

dev-util

be

The release we were using is incompatible with the then current codebase. The newer code was far slower and a little too unstable for everyday use. Alternatives to Bugs Everywhere such as ditz exist.

Reason:Culled Commit:b24e7c8e Removal date:2010-04-04

cram

cram now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path is clean-ish. The ebuild will exist in ::shadow for the foreseeable future.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:ede45a23 Removal date:2017-03-08

ditz

The versions of Ruby that ditz works with no longer exist in the upstream tree.

Reason:Culled Commit:d5f7c95d Removal date:2015-09-16

fossil

There is now a version in the tree, although the ebuilds will still exist in ::fixes until an upstream ebuild has equivalent keywords. The upgrade isn’t exactly seamless, but shouldn’t cause significant problems.

Note the version numbers in the in-tree versions, if you’re authoring ebuilds with dependencies on fossil

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:1954746e Removal date:2010-01-26

hg-git

Available in the main tree.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:e4f47fae Removal date:2009-12-08

wingide

The upstream packaging was a shocking mess. Both versions supported by the ebuilds contain bundled releases of Python and GTK+ with easily exploitable security vulnerabilities, and only the GTK+ problems are easily worked around.

After some months, nobody stepped up to maintain the ebuilds beyond one-off bugfixes.

Reason:Culled Commit:52a983f5 Removal date:2010-02-27

dev-vcs

gitflow

Upgrade path is quite messy: upstream uses invalid paths, has missing zsh completion and requires a package move.

This will be maintained in ::shadow for the foreseeable future.

Reason:Available upstream Commit:ab070046 Removal date:2014-03-25 Issues:GitHub #845

git-sync

Maintenance is passing to mleighy‘s group.

Reason:Moved to ::live Commit:a49d852e Removal date:2011-09-13

hub

Maintenance is passing to mleighy‘s group.

Reason:Moved to ::live Commit:2b66e43f Removal date:2011-09-13

games-puzzle

sgt-puzzles

This exists in ::shadow until an upstream ebuild has equivalent keywords.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:36eb5d09 Removal date:2010-01-08

mail-client

notmuch

There is now an upstream ebuild for notmuch, and the local version will be removed at some point. The upgrade path is incredibly ugly and some features are not supported, so this situation may last sometime.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:66e7659e Removal date:2011-12-13

notmuch-gtk

Maintenance is passing to mleighy‘s group.

Reason:Moved to ::live Commit:fe7077bc Removal date:2011-09-13

media-gfx

blockdiag

blockdiag now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path is bad. The ebuild will exist in ::shadow for the foreseeable future.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:75f1a534 Removal date:2017-03-08

sphinxcontrib-blockdiag

blockdiag now packaged upstream.

Upgrade path is bad. The ebuild will exist in ::shadow for the foreseeable future.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:d9214cc3 Removal date:2017-03-08

psplash

Supported alternatives exist, including busybox‘s fbsplash and plymouth.

Reason:Culled Commit:39fc52f8 Removal date:2011-02-26 Issues:GitHub #141

sng

Made obsolete by upng, which is available from the AST ::graphics overlay.

Reason:Culled Commit:c88cb29d Removal date:2012-03-30

sxiv

Package now exists upstream.

Reason:Culled Commit:523c0450 Removal date:2011-08-27 Issues:GitHub #457

media-sound

mpdcron

Maintenance is passing to mleighy‘s group.

Releases still maintained in jnrowe-misc.

Reason:Moved to ::live Commit:6ab396d7 Removal date:2011-09-13

media-tv

ontv

Upstream is dropping dependencies, and the effort required to keep this package is excessive given that this overlay is moribund.

Reason:Culled Commit:a8fcc941 Removal date:2014-11-11

net-irc

twirssi

Maintenance is passing to mleighy‘s group.

Reason:Moved to ::live Commit:9c9b2cf7 Removal date:2011-09-13

net-mail

rss2email

This one was a very, very, very long time coming...

This can’t be handled by just moving the current ebuild to ::fixes, as the upgrade path is fiercely ugly. The shadowed ebuild is expected to be around for quite some time still.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:2f09d163 Removal date:2011-05-12

sci-geosciences

gpxviewer

Upstream is dropping dependencies, and the effort required to keep this package is excessive given that this overlay is moribund.

There is no upgrade path.

Reason:

Culled

Commit:

commit:9d5d6343 <9d5d63432a0ac0e1ebc36da0a06af12cb814d14b>`

Removal date:

2017-07-06

osm-gps-map

The shadowed ebuild will exist until upstream’s has matching visibility.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:9c3cb374 Removal date:2013-04-24

sys-fs

fslint

An ebuild is now available upstream. It is a drop in replacement.

Reason:Culled Commit:47db2ee8 Removal date:2013-03-29 Issues:{issue.title} (#{issue.id})

unionfs-fuse

There is now a version in the tree, and the ebuilds will still exist in ::fixes until a version has equivalent keywords. See the linked bug for some unfortunate details of the upgrade path.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:61af9a27 Removal date:2010-01-20 Issues:AST#249971

virtual

python-multiprocessing

Python 2.5 has been removed upstream, so this package is no longer required.

Reason:Culled Commit:eaee27c9 Removal date:2013-09-06

python-importlib

Python 2.6 has been removed upstream, so this package is no longer required.

Reason:Culled Commit:1be0cab7 Removal date:2014-07-08

www-apps

rstblog

Maintenance is passing to mleighy‘s group.

Reason:Moved to ::live Commit:06351abd Removal date:2011-09-13

www-client

github-cli

No longer used at our site.

Reason:Culled Commit:9ab12d24 Removal date:2012-03-21

opera-remote

Doesn’t work correctly with recent Opera versions, and the built-in command line interface has improved greatly.

Reason:Culled Commit:77683d8f Removal date:2010-08-08

surfraw

This was causing problems with the kinesis resolver.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:29d5b356 Removal date:2011-09-13

x11-libs

ghosd

No longer used at our site.

Reason:Culled Commit:7181a803 Removal date:2013-01-03

x11-misc

notify-osd

This packages was found to be unsupportable, even to the level required while it was masked.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:d8741f96 Removal date:2011-06-02

x11-plugins

obvious

Maintenance is passing to mleighy‘s group.

Reason:Moved to ::live Commit:a240cd77 Removal date:2011-09-13`

vicious

Users should have migrated to the new upstream ebuilds, but the upgrade path isn’t very clean so it is expected some ebuilds will remain in ::shadow for some time.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:9072fe6a Removal date:2011-06-16

x11-themes

notify-osd-icons

They’re definitely very pretty, but without notify-osd they provide little additional value.

Reason:Culled Commit:0ccd124c Removal date:2011-07-02

x11-wm

matwm2

Moved to ::fixes until a working version with equivalent keywords is available.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:e36fcf7b Removal date:2010-01-06

parti

An ebuild now exists upstream.

Reason:Moved to ::shadow Commit:c3d01805 Removal date:2010-10-08 Issues:GitHub #6

subtle

It is unsupportable in its current state.

Reason:Culled Commit:a6d131d3 Removal date:2010-03-04

wmfs

Maintenance is passing to mleighy‘s group.

Reason:Moved to ::live Commit:a73b09d3 Removal date:2011-09-13