This bug is here to track all packages which do not compile or run scripts on PHP 7.1 or greater. PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 will be EOL at the end of 2018 and will be masked soon after.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=77ab0e12c0485d63cea19d06145218f5a1d17436 commit 77ab0e12c0485d63cea19d06145218f5a1d17436 Author: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-09-30 18:55:42 +0000 Commit: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-09-30 20:38:58 +0000 profiles: Mask PHP 5.6 and dependencies PHP 5.6 is End of life and we've kept it around long enough Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/651094 Signed-off-by: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> profiles/base/package.use.mask | 8 +++++++ profiles/base/use.mask | 4 ++++ profiles/package.mask | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+)