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Bug 945278 - packages.gentoo.org implies any masked package is going to be removed/is last-rited
Summary: packages.gentoo.org implies any masked package is going to be removed/is last...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Websites
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Packages Website
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Reported: 2024-11-29 07:27 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2024-11-29 07:40 UTC (History)
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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2024-11-29 07:27:53 UTC 
Packages masked for reasons other than last-rites, e.g. only to be used via crossdev, show up with a misleading message on p.g.o.

For example, for https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-devel/nvptx-tools, we see:
"""
     This package is masked and could be removed soon!
    The mask comment indicates that this package is scheduled for removal from our package repository.
    Please review the mask information below for more details.
    These packages are not supposed to be merged directly, instead please use sys-devel/crossdev to install them.
    Affected packages
    sys-devel/nvptx-tools
    Author/Date
    Diego E. Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (2009-01-03)
"""

But it's not last-rited at all. Maybe since we have GLEP 84 now [0], we can be sure whether an entry is for last-rites or not.

This came up in bug 945265 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/945265#c6).

[0] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0084.html