net-im/skype depends on dev-qt/qtwebkit:4 which is ancient and will never see any security updates. If it's not possible to disable it and there's no upstream port available it might be time to remove this package.
See also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608174 "Important notice: All Skype for Linux clients version 4.3 and older will be retired on July 1, 2017. To keep chatting, please install the latest version of Skype for Linux." From: https://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/ TL;DR: should be safe to remove.
Agreed, but not until microsoft actually follows through with the EOL. Until then we should keep it around.
Please don't mess with our tracker. This stays open until either skype is removed from tree or some miracle is dropping qtwebkit:4 dependency.
Sorry about that, still a bit green wrt bugs. As long as qt4 doesn't get punted while skype classic is still working. Skype classic has a hard dependency on qt4 last time I checked so a migration to qt5 won't be possible.
We'll have to find a middle ground there. It is clear that skype-classic will depend on qtwebkit:4 forever. But Gentoo won't keep qtwebkit:4 forever.
What if qt4 was simply masked (along with all revdeps) and users were welcome to unmask it "at their own risk"? As long as skype-classic and its deps aren't removed prematurely I don't much care if it gets masked. The moment microsoft pulls the upstream packages or blacklists the classic client from logging in I'll be happy to see classic lastrited in a heartbeat. Until then however it's technically still supported by microsoft. As a point of interest, I still use skype classic becuase so far it is the only version of skype for linux that keeps logs past the 30 day limit.
i suppose it doesn't hurt to mask it right now; from the download page: "Important notice: All Skype for Linux clients version 4.3 and older will be retired on July 1, 2017. To keep chatting, please install the latest version of Skype for Linux."
(In reply to Robert Förster from comment #7) > i suppose it doesn't hurt to mask it right now; from the download page: > "Important notice: All Skype for Linux clients version 4.3 and older will be > retired on July 1, 2017. To keep chatting, please install the latest version > of Skype for Linux." and it looks like i am too intolerant to follow the full bug thread, this has already been said :| to add something useful here anyway: i think Microsoft will actually do this on that date, as they are deprecating support for other OS as well.
I have a PR pending already that hardmasks this (as well as some revdeps I discovered when repoman yelled at me).
For the record, it appears that microsoft didn't actually shut it down. I'm using the classic version right now as we speak and it's still not banned by skype's servers or by current versions of skype. It's still working fine.
Hell, microsoft is still providing the classic binaries for download from the skype website. it is far from "end of life" at this point
It's been brought to my attention that qt4 is being forcibly removed from the main gentoo tree, among other things due to a massive number of security bugs, and it has also been brought to my attention that qt4 also is failing to build in some cases. Since the removal of q4 is not up for discussion and is final, skype is also being lastrited.
Init last-rites in git commit 82a41fb4ed212f4c9979907f70d3e360872d2a12
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=9fd953b2870c84d5fc76bc74152486396caf675e commit 9fd953b2870c84d5fc76bc74152486396caf675e Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2017-11-14 23:01:51 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-11-14 23:01:51 +0000 profiles: Remove last-rited packages Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/633498 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/633510 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/633502 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/620722 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/608174 dev-python/skype4py/Manifest | 1 - dev-python/skype4py/metadata.xml | 9 --- dev-python/skype4py/skype4py-1.0.35-r1.ebuild | 22 ------- kde-misc/kbiff/Manifest | 1 - kde-misc/kbiff/kbiff-4.0.ebuild | 17 ----- kde-misc/kbiff/metadata.xml | 11 ---- kde-misc/kover/Manifest | 1 - kde-misc/kover/files/kover-4-cflags.patch | 20 ------ kde-misc/kover/kover-6.ebuild | 27 -------- kde-misc/kover/metadata.xml | 12 ---- media-gfx/kfax/Manifest | 1 - media-gfx/kfax/files/kfax-3.3.6-kde45.patch | 12 ---- media-gfx/kfax/files/kfax-3.3.6-underlinking.patch | 12 ---- media-gfx/kfax/kfax-3.3.6-r1.ebuild | 38 ----------- media-gfx/kfax/metadata.xml | 8 --- media-sound/k4guitune/Manifest | 1 - .../files/k4guitune-1.1.1-desktop_entry.patch | 10 --- media-sound/k4guitune/k4guitune-1.1.1.ebuild | 32 --------- media-sound/k4guitune/metadata.xml | 12 ---- media-sound/kenvy24/Manifest | 1 - media-sound/kenvy24/kenvy24-1.2.ebuild | 25 -------- media-sound/kenvy24/metadata.xml | 15 ----- media-sound/kmidimon/Manifest | 1 - .../files/kmidimon-0.7.5-kdelibs-4.14.11.patch | 17 ----- media-sound/kmidimon/kmidimon-0.7.5.ebuild | 36 ----------- media-sound/kmidimon/metadata.xml | 15 ----- media-sound/kradio/Manifest | 1 - .../kradio/files/kradio-4.0.7-include.patch | 15 ----- media-sound/kradio/kradio-4.0.8.ebuild | 75 ---------------------- media-sound/kradio/metadata.xml | 11 ---- media-sound/skype-call-recorder/Manifest | 1 - .../files/skype-call-recorder-0.8-cmake.patch | 19 ------ media-sound/skype-call-recorder/metadata.xml | 8 --- .../skype-call-recorder-0.11.ebuild | 32 --------- media-sound/waheela/Manifest | 1 - media-sound/waheela/metadata.xml | 8 --- media-sound/waheela/waheela-0.3.ebuild | 21 ------ media-video/loopy/Manifest | 1 - media-video/loopy/loopy-0.5.3.ebuild | 22 ------- media-video/loopy/metadata.xml | 11 ---- net-im/skypetab-ng/Manifest | 2 - .../skypetab-ng-0.5.2_p20150201-isdigit.patch | 14 ---- net-im/skypetab-ng/metadata.xml | 12 ---- net-im/skypetab-ng/skypetab-ng-0.5.2.ebuild | 37 ----------- .../skypetab-ng/skypetab-ng-0.5.2_p20150201.ebuild | 41 ------------ net-im/skypetab-ng/skypetab-ng-9999.ebuild | 41 ------------ net-p2p/kmldonkey/Manifest | 1 - net-p2p/kmldonkey/kmldonkey-2.0.7.ebuild | 34 ---------- net-p2p/kmldonkey/metadata.xml | 8 --- profiles/package.mask | 66 ------------------- 50 files changed, 839 deletions(-)
For the record it appears microsoft's servers have finally version banned this package from login anyway.