commit:     7425f99179748bce24ff54227c7fe5405d3f594a
Author:     Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Mon Sep 11 21:41:17 2023 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Mon Sep 11 21:41:17 2023 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=7425f991

profiles: clarify eudev bugs

Explain the tags issue.

Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo.org>

 profiles/package.mask | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 11a677b9cbd3..9887567068c0 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -35,9 +35,15 @@
 
 # Andreas K. Hüttel <[email protected]> (2023-09-11)
 # Dead project accumulating open bugs and incompatibilities.
-# No maintainer commits since February 2021.
-# Bugs 673834, 713106, 753134, 667686, 771705, 668880, 770358, 851255,
-# 711462, 904741, ... Removal in 30 days.
+# No Gentoo maintainer commits since February 2021.
+# Many Gentoo packaging issues (some may need to go upstream):
+#  bug #713106, #753134, bug #667686, bug #771705, bug #668880, #770358, bug 
#851255
+#  bug #711462, #904741
+# But more pressingly, lacks support for the udev 'tags' API which libgudev now
+# requires. No fix has been committed upstream and other software like Plymouth
+# has been broken with eudev for some time because of this missing support.
+# See bug #913702.
+# Removal on 2023-10-11.
 sys-fs/eudev
 
 # Leonardo Hernández Hernández <[email protected]> (2023-09-10)

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