Upstream discontinued Linux support over 10 years ago so we are now one major version and countless known bugs behind. No source archives published for current versions. Untmaintained in Gentoo for years, EAPI 5. Removal in 30 days.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=42fa5556f41bf78c84d6d21ef960d4d53fe4051e commit 42fa5556f41bf78c84d6d21ef960d4d53fe4051e Author: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-11-26 17:09:52 +0000 Commit: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-11-26 17:12:22 +0000 sci-biology/ApE: mask for removal Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/827522 Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
What are you talking about? It just works.
The fact that it "just works" does not directly affect any of the reasons for us having decided to last-rite this package. If you would rather us keep it you are of course very much welcome to proxy-maintain it - starting with a bump to EAPI 8.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cdb1c8354867f08cf7d9ba7bd933ee5310e01f41 commit cdb1c8354867f08cf7d9ba7bd933ee5310e01f41 Author: Jakov Smolić <jsmolic@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-12-26 17:48:39 +0000 Commit: Jakov Smolić <jsmolic@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-12-26 17:48:39 +0000 sci-biology/ApE: treeclean Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/827522 Signed-off-by: Jakov Smolić <jsmolic@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 13 --------- sci-biology/ApE/ApE-2.0.7-r1.ebuild | 53 ------------------------------------- sci-biology/ApE/Manifest | 1 - sci-biology/ApE/metadata.xml | 5 ---- 4 files changed, 72 deletions(-)