commit:     d6ff1b4185cfaa3b203242085c4c25b4a7c4b03a
Author:     James Le Cuirot <chewi <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Tue Feb 16 22:00:55 2016 +0000
Commit:     James Le Cuirot <chewi <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Tue Mar 15 07:05:57 2016 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d6ff1b41

profiles: Mask dev-dotnet/ikvm

Our old ebuilds require Java 6/7 and are most likely
vulnerable. Upstream has a new version targeting Java 8 but no
response from dotnet team. I am leaving ikvm-bin alone but only
because it doesn't require Java. Removal in 30 days.

 profiles/package.mask | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 85ff1c7..8d9c709 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@
 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
 
 # James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> (14 Mar 2016)
+# Our old ebuilds require Java 6/7 and are most likely
+# vulnerable. Upstream has a new version targeting Java 8 but no
+# response from dotnet team. I am leaving ikvm-bin alone but only
+# because it doesn't require Java. Removal in 30 days.
+dev-dotnet/ikvm
+
+# James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> (14 Mar 2016)
 # Requires Java 6. No stable releases since 2003 and no longer
 # required by bt747. Removal in 30 days.
 dev-java/jcharts

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