profiles: mask net-im/skype

Upstream is EOLing this version at the start of July.
Also depend on deprecated qt4.

Reported-by: Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
Reported-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
Gentoo-bug: 620722
Gentoo-bug: 608174

diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 11da07c3ed199ffc088f5667765d283ad3b86f6a..c50572b9a42fb88cf37948e096d9c5f0de2a9892 100644 (file)
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@
 
 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
 
+# Raymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com> (11 Jun 2017)
+# Upstream announced EOL effective July 2017.
+# Depends on qt4 which is being deprecated.
+# Possible alternative is skypeforlinux,
+# which uses the same account information but has different features.
+dev-python/skype4py
+media-sound/skype-call-recorder
+net-im/skype
+net-im/skypetab-ng
+
 # Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> (08 Jun 2017)
 # Unmaintained in Gentoo; Unpatched security bugs.
 # Removal in 30 days. Bug #608726