[gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete and vulnerable x11-base/xorg-server versions and packages which depend on them

[gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete and vulnerable x11-base/xorg-server versions and packages which depend on them

[Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn]

In the face of recent security bugs in x11-base/xorg-server, x11 team 
has decided to drop most of the older versions. Going forward, we will 
keep 1.12 in the tree for some more time, as a few drivers still depend 
on it. 1.15 will also be kept for some time after 1.16 goes stable, as 
long as it is easy enough to backport security patches to it. But both 
will be masked and dropped as soon as they become too much of a 
maintenance burden.

Today's last rites will affect mostly users of Intel's 
(Poulsbo/Cedarview) proprietary graphics drivers of which there are 
hopefully not too many.

# Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> (10 Jan 2015)
# obsolete and vulnerable, bug #532086
# removal in 30 days
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.9*
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.10*
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.11*
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.13*
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.14*

# Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> (10 Jan 2015)
# requires obsolete and vulnerable xorg-server, bug #532086
# removal in 30 days
x11-drivers/psb-firmware
x11-drivers/xf86-input-citron
x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix
x11-drivers/xf86-video-impact
x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc
x11-drivers/xf86-video-sunbw2
x11-libs/libdrm-poulsbo
x11-libs/xpsb-glx