From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 20:43:17 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: profiles: mask net-im/skype
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c66cb77287e586077674a425889ec02589a4c407;p=gentoo.git

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
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diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 11da07c3ed19..c50572b9a42f 100644
--- 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