commit:     c66cb77287e586077674a425889ec02589a4c407
Author:     Raymond Jennings <shentino <AT> gmail <DOT> com>
AuthorDate: Sun Jun  4 20:43:17 2017 +0000
Commit:     Michael Palimaka <kensington <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Sun Jun 11 08:40:38 2017 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c66cb772

profiles: mask net-im/skype

Upstream is EOLing this version at the start of July.
Also depend on deprecated qt4.

Reported-by: Michael Palimaka <kensington <AT> gentoo.org>
Reported-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm <AT> gentoo.org>

Gentoo-bug: 620722
Gentoo-bug: 608174

 profiles/package.mask | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 11da07c3ed1..c50572b9a42 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@
 
 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
 
+# Raymond Jennings <[email protected]> (11 Jun 2017)
+# Upstream announced EOL effective July 2017.
+# Depends on qt4 which is being deprecated.
+# Possible alternative is skypeforlinux,
+# which uses the same account information but has different features.
+dev-python/skype4py
+media-sound/skype-call-recorder
+net-im/skype
+net-im/skypetab-ng
+
 # Thomas Deutschmann <[email protected]> (08 Jun 2017)
 # Unmaintained in Gentoo; Unpatched security bugs.
 # Removal in 30 days. Bug #608726

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