Project:Ruby/Ruby 1.8 deprecation

Ruby 1.8 is currently being deprecated.

= List of ruby18-only packages to be removed =

in progress

 * actionwebservice: mask with rails 2.3
 * adhearsion (newer version is in progress...)
 * dbi ← www-servers/gorg (with USE=mysql): gorg 0.7.0 needs to be marked stable first, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492268
 * dbd-mysql ← dbi
 * dbd-odbc ← dbi, not actually used
 * dbd-pg ← dbi, not actually used
 * dbd-sqlite ← dbi, not actually used
 * dbd-sqlite3 ← dbi, not actually used
 * gettext_activerecord: mask with rails 2.3
 * gettext_rails: mask with rails 2.3
 * locale_rails: mask with rails 2.3
 * mecab-ruby: stable newer version (when ruby20 is stable...)
 * oniguruma ← textpow,ultraviolet (only for ruby18)
 * parsetree (still needs version bump?) ← heckle (already masked), ruby2ruby:0 ← i18n:0.4 (lacks ppc/ppc64 stable: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483708)
 * pry:0 ← adhearsion
 * radiant: mask together with rails 2.3 (no newer version yet, hard to package properly)
 * rails:2.3 → stable rails:3.2 first?
 * revolution ← app-misc/alexandria (evo USE flag)
 * rspec-rails: mask with rails 2.3
 * ruby2ruby:0 can be masked → stable ruby2ruby:2 first: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483708
 * ruby-bdb ← net-irc/rbot: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488674
 * ruby-taglib ← app-emacs/bongo (taglib USE flag https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492562 )
 * rubytorrent ← media-sound/podcatcher (bittorrent USE flag, 1.9 compatible fork: https://github.com/remomueller/rubytorrent-allspice )
 * sqlite-ruby ← dbd-sqlite
 * system_timer ← faraday (only for ruby18)
 * will_paginate:0 → rails ← radiant

ruby 1.8 final mask
dev-lang/ruby:1.8 virtual/rubygems:ruby18 virtual/ruby-rdoc:ruby18 virual/ruby-ssl:ruby18 virtual/ruby-threads:ruby18
 * 1) Ruby 1.8 has no longer been supported upstream since July 2013 and
 * 2) has known security issues (bug #492282). Ruby packages in general
 * 3) are no longer compatible with ruby 1.8. Removal is tracked in bug
 * 4) 434064.
 * 5) This mask also includes all packages still depending in ruby 1.8.
 * 1) This mask also includes all packages still depending in ruby 1.8.

app-i18n/rskkserv

ready to be masked

 * postgres ← metasploit https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479688

masked (expires Dec 24th)

 * id3lib-ruby

ready to be masked (maintainer needed/ruby herd, check for updates (if interested) and deps again)

 * app-admin/rudy
 * app-office/rabbit
 * app-text/webgen
 * games-util/rubygfe