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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/phantomjs and
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On 06/05/2017 07:06 AM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 09:11:27 +0200
> Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> # Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> (05 Jun 2017)
>> # Bundles obsolete and vulnerable webkit version.
>> # Upstream has stopped development and recommends using
>> # headless mode in >=www-client/chromium-59.
>> # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #589994.
>> www-client/phantomjs
> 
> Can phantomjs be simply masked for a longer period until the development
> world has had an opportunity to catch up?
> 

The real reason for the mask is that it bundles an ancient version of
qtwebkit with a ton of known security vulnerabilities. Hans was
attempting to fix it, but now that upstream is dead, it will remain
insecure forever.