profiles: Mask dev-db/mysql-5.5*

Allow users to plan a migration to newer version or MariaDB

Signed-off-by: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>

diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index bdf7fe6ce260adbb7997fb7400700f428478bf06..d458f03e45698ae2d1bbbfcfb81cb9914adeb002 100644 (file)
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@
 
 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
 
+# Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> (2019-07-31)
+# MySQL 5.5 will no longer receive updates from Oracle
+# It may or may not have unaccounced security vulnerabilities
+# Please upgrade to 5.6 or use dev-db/mariadb
+# Removal in 30 days
+=dev-db/mysql-5.5*
+
 # Miroslav Šulc <fordfrog@gentoo.org> (2019-07-30)
 # Depends on >=virtual/{jdk,jre}-11 which is masked
 =www-servers/tomcat-9.0.22