Mask media-video/mplayer2 and media-video/smplayer2 for removal in 30 days (bug ...

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 # ChangeLog for profile directory
 # Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/ChangeLog,v 1.9857 2015/03/15 02:30:44 yngwin Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/ChangeLog,v 1.9858 2015/03/15 09:15:06 yngwin Exp $
 #
 # This ChangeLog should include records for all changes in profiles directory.
 # Only typo fixes which don't affect portage/repoman behaviour could be avoided
 # here. If in doubt put a record here!
 
+  15 Mar 2015; Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> package.mask:
+  Mask media-video/mplayer2 and media-video/smplayer2 for removal in 30 days
+  (bug #519212 and others)
+
   15 Mar 2015; Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> updates/1Q-2015:
   Move dev-qt/qtdocumentation to dev-qt/qt-docs as per Qt team policy (bug
   457028#c56)

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-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/package.mask,v 1.16415 2015/03/14 20:54:55 voyageur Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/package.mask,v 1.16416 2015/03/15 09:15:06 yngwin Exp $
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 # When you add an entry to the top of this file, add your name, the date, and
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+# Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> (15 Mar 2015)
+# These projects have been abandoned upstream. Most mplayer2 devs have moved
+# on to media-video/mpv, and users are suggested to do the same. We have
+# media-video/baka-mplayer and media-video/smplayer available as Qt-based GUIs.
+# See bugs 452484, 485994, 512082, 519212. Removal in 30 days.
+media-video/mplayer2
+media-video/smplayer2
+
 # Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org> (11 Mar 2015)
 # Doesn't build with modern gcc, randomly fails to build (bug #494170)
 # and no upstream updates for over 10 years.