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
¶
app-misc
¶
app-text
¶
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
¶
dev-lua
¶
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 |
dev-haskell
¶
configfile
¶
Only used byhpodder
, which has been removed.
Reason: | Culled |
---|---|
Commit: | 9f861263 |
Removal date: | 2010-09-24 |
dev-perl
¶
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 thekinesis
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 standardpython
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 shadowedebuild
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 shadowedebuild
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 byrequests
, 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 thekinesis
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 thekinesis
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 thekinesis
resolver.
Reason: | Moved to ::shadow |
---|---|
Commit: | bd89ae1b |
Removal date: | 2012-01-16 |
mccabe
¶
The shadowedebuild
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 |
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
¶
Recentnose2
versions bundle the coverage plugin.
Reason: | Culled |
---|---|
Commit: | 92640fb7 |
Removal date: | 2016-04-06 |
parse
¶
The shadowedebuild
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 thekinesis
resolver.
Reason: | Moved to ::shadow |
---|---|
Commit: | 7b637d57 |
Removal date: | 2011-09-13 |
pgmagick
¶
The shadowedebuild
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 byrequests
, 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 shadowedebuild
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 shadowedebuild
will exist until upstream’sosm-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 withdoctests
, 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 onrequests
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 increasednose
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 thekinesis
resolver.
Reason: | Moved to ::shadow |
---|---|
Commit: | 088ab46a |
Removal date: | 2011-09-13 |
six
¶
Now packaged upstream.
This will remain in
::shadow
until upstream has anebuild
available with equal keywords
Reason: | Moved to ::shadow |
---|---|
Commit: | dafa80f2 |
Removal date: | 2012-05-31 |
Issues: | GitHub #614 |
socksipy
¶
The shadowedebuild
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 tomleighy
‘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 |
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Commit: |
|
||
Removal date: | 2015-03-06 |
sphinxcontrib-httpdomain
¶
The shadowedebuild
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 shadowedebuild
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 anebuild
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 |
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 |
dev-util
¶
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 upstreamebuild
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 onfossil
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 ofPython
andGTK+
with easily exploitable security vulnerabilities, and only theGTK+
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 |
games-puzzle
¶
mail-client
¶
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, includingbusybox
‘sfbsplash
andplymouth
.
Reason: | Culled |
---|---|
Commit: | 39fc52f8 |
Removal date: | 2011-02-26 |
Issues: | GitHub #141 |
sng
¶
Made obsolete byupng
, 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
¶
media-tv
¶
net-irc
¶
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 shadowedebuild
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 |
||
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Commit: |
|
||
Removal date: | 2017-07-06 |
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}) |
virtual
¶
www-apps
¶
www-client
¶
x11-misc
¶
x11-plugins
¶
x11-themes
¶
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
¶
Anebuild
now exists upstream.
Reason: | Moved to ::shadow |
---|---|
Commit: | c3d01805 |
Removal date: | 2010-10-08 |
Issues: | GitHub #6 |