commit:     1970be05736016d5cd4369a32756d395d01ed932
Author:     Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Sat Apr 13 18:39:59 2019 +0000
Commit:     Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Sat Apr 13 18:40:28 2019 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1970be05

package.mask: Last rite net-analyzer/gnu-netcat

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/601742
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo.org>

 profiles/package.mask | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index f99dba105d2..2cdacb52e68 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -35,6 +35,17 @@
 # Masked for removal in 30 days, bug #683248.
 app-emacs/prom-wl
 
+# Michał Górny <[email protected]> (13 Apr 2019)
+# Unmaintained.  Contains vulnerable code and a large number of unsolved
+# (upstream) issues, including licensing issues that prevented Debian
+# from including it.  The current version is from 2004, and carries
+# some local patches.  Last upstream commits are from 2013, and involve
+# three successive branches, the 0.7.x not having a release since 2004,
+# and the two remaining branches never seeing a single release.
+# The suggested alternatives are net-analyzer/{netcat,openbsd-netcat}.
+# Removal in 30 days.  Bug #601742.
+net-analyzer/gnu-netcat
+
 # Michał Górny <[email protected]> (13 Apr 2019)
 # net-libs/ftplib: Unmaintained.  The ebuild suffers build failures due
 # to broken multilib conversion.  Last bumped in 2014, and needs local

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