net-nntp/inn: Remove last-rited pkg

Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/608908
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>

11 files changed, 0 insertions, 1255 deletions

diff --git a/net-nntp/inn/Manifest b/net-nntp/inn/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f72f3356fbe..000000000000
--- a/net-nntp/inn/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-DIST inn-2.5.3.tar.gz 2412119 BLAKE2B 8958744b6a54842ee888e89fe9a25152968a2e66196c78338d9a1f25d8e079d57e2d161d947e1d9bd44180c9e7f9b5af3d5a116050f7e92b3e0420f551623a7e SHA512 e579944571f0ec4fcdbf86de8458342075ce08f60df046bc8c45969b39f396ede8f5034f734542e1c64fb7792ae01c117c6a7af170fe5a43e1d0b2693f34d392
-DIST inn-2.5.4.tar.gz 2408600 BLAKE2B 0515ebc655aa7efdcb22a28037cba607d58056e04dd44b57473dd352823f4780272cd3a8064c0af7f7116c65def01eb417936f2a03d4c9d40ad26df26945e3f2 SHA512 f632599d009e8965d1b0ce7fef84dfbe48034c3a86825694a5ca4311123347647f9a4b534cff59820437f619ec09867bcff16f8f18c705e056eeea6493bc5441
-DIST inn-2.5.5.tar.gz 2419841 BLAKE2B c28a16883200429f179e114d62b2599900de2c5e54e85a0cdc16f7765d3419d5d09522c0e4d46f920c495f81d49cede50dc2251dd842178b2cc704fae88c66dc SHA512 aada60b15952810fa31c3b2078b4ca1b1e560cee348cc81d076e0ba1f8b785497310d60aca89b9ecc4af85a1493eefa8a2b976cb349b8ea96482c93cbcf049f1
diff --git a/net-nntp/inn/files/inn-2.5.3-ar.patch b/net-nntp/inn/files/inn-2.5.3-ar.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ac4f8158c44f..000000000000
--- a/net-nntp/inn/files/inn-2.5.3-ar.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-Use system AR.
-
-Gentoo bug #461254.
-
---- lib/Makefile
-+++ lib/Makefile
-@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
- 	    -rpath $(PATHLIB) -version-info 2:0:0
- 
- libinn.a: $(OBJECTS)
--	ar r $@ $(OBJECTS)
-+	$(AR) r $@ $(OBJECTS)
- 	$(RANLIB) libinn.a
- 
- .c.o .c.lo:
---- storage/Makefile
-+++ storage/Makefile
-@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
- 	    -rpath $(PATHLIB) -version-info 2:0:0
- 
- libstorage.a: $(OBJECTS)
--	ar r $@ $(OBJECTS)
-+	$(AR) r $@ $(OBJECTS)
- 	$(RANLIB) libstorage.a
- 
- # Make.methods is included in the distribution tarball since some non-GNU
---- history/Makefile
-+++ history/Makefile
-@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
- 	    -rpath $(PATHLIB) -version-info 2:0:0
- 
- libinnhist.a: $(OBJECTS)
--	ar r $@ $(OBJECTS)
-+	$(AR) r $@ $(OBJECTS)
- 	$(RANLIB) libinnhist.a
- 
- # Try to set up these rules so that buildconfig is only run once.
diff --git a/net-nntp/inn/files/inn-2.5.3-tests.patch b/net-nntp/inn/files/inn-2.5.3-tests.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6511508308d6..000000000000
--- a/net-nntp/inn/files/inn-2.5.3-tests.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-Certain filesystems (such as reiserfs) cannot properly report
-the number of free inodes. In this case, inndf reports an absurdly
-high number instead of nothing, which standard df does.
-There seems to be some confusion about which FOO_MAX is returned,
-so this patch adds an actual value known to be returned.
-
-See bug #348490.
-
---- tests/util/inndf.t
-+++ tests/util/inndf.t
-@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
-         real=`df -i . | sed 1d | awk '{ print $4 }'`
-     fi
-     try=`$inndf -i .`
--    if [ "$try" = 4294967295 ] ; then
-+    if [ "$try" = 4294967295 ] || [ "$try" = 2147483647 ] ; then
-         printcount "ok"
-     else
-         diff=`expr "$real" - "$try"`
diff --git a/net-nntp/inn/files/innd b/net-nntp/inn/files/innd
deleted file mode 100644
index c45d45b830cb..000000000000
--- a/net-nntp/inn/files/innd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/sbin/openrc-run
-# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-depend() {
-	need net
-}
-
-start() {
-	ebegin "Starting innd"
-	checkpath -d -m 0755 -o news:news /var/run/news
-	start-stop-daemon --start --user news --exec /usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news
-	eend $?
-}
-
-stop() {
-	ebegin "Stopping innd"
-	start-stop-daemon --start --user news --exec /usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news -- stop
-	sleep 2
-	eend $?
-}
diff --git a/net-nntp/inn/files/innd-r1 b/net-nntp/inn/files/innd-r1
deleted file mode 100644
index 071797e50796..000000000000
--- a/net-nntp/inn/files/innd-r1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-#!/sbin/openrc-run
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-depend() {
-	need net
-}
-
-start() {
-	ebegin "Starting ${SVCNAME}"
-	checkpath -d -m 0755 -o news:news /run/news
-	start-stop-daemon --start --user news --pidfile /run/news/${SVCNAME}.pid \
-		--exec /usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news
-	eend $?
-}
-
-stop() {
-	ebegin "Stopping ${SVCNAME}"
-	start-stop-daemon --start --user news --exec /usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news -- stop
-	sleep 2
-	eend $?
-}
diff --git a/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.3-r1.ebuild b/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.3-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 48edc30bd817..000000000000
--- a/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.3-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,281 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit autotools eutils multilib python-single-r1 ssl-cert
-
-DESCRIPTION="The Internet News daemon, fully featured NNTP server"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.isc.org/software/inn"
-SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-# GPL-2 only for init script
-LICENSE="ISC GPL-2+ public-domain BSD-4 BSD-2 RSA BSD MIT GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc x86"
-IUSE="berkdb innkeywords inntaggedhash ipv6 kerberos perl python sasl ssl"
-REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
-
-DEPEND="
-	virtual/mta
-	dev-perl/MIME-tools
-	sys-libs/pam
-	sys-libs/zlib
-	kerberos? ( virtual/krb5 )
-	sasl? ( >=dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2 )
-	ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0= )
-	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
-	berkdb? ( sys-libs/db:* )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	use python && python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-tests.patch
-
-	sed -e 's: -B .OLD::' -i Makefile.global.in || die
-
-	# Do not treat LDFLAGS as if it contained libraries to link to
-	sed -e 's:LDFLAGS::g' -i m4/python.m4 || die
-
-	# We do not have the biff service, but we do have comsat
-	sed -e 's:"biff":"comsat":g' -i tests/lib/getnameinfo-t.c || die
-
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	econf \
-		--prefix=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news \
-		--sysconfdir=/etc/news \
-		--mandir=/usr/share/man \
-		--infodir=/usr/share/info \
-		--with-control-dir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/control \
-		--with-filter-dir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/filter \
-		--with-db-dir=/var/spool/news/db \
-		--with-doc-dir=/usr/share/doc/${PF} \
-		--with-spool-dir=/var/spool/news \
-		--with-log-dir=/var/log/news \
-		--with-run-dir=/var/run/news \
-		--with-tmp-dir=/var/spool/news/tmp \
-		--disable-libtool \
-		--with-gnu-ld \
-		--enable-setgid-inews \
-		--enable-uucp-rnews \
-		$(use_with perl) \
-		$(use_with python) \
-		$(use_with kerberos kerberos /usr) \
-		$(use_with sasl) \
-		$(use_with ssl openssl) \
-		$(use_with berkdb berkeleydb /usr) \
-		$(use_enable ipv6) \
-		$(use_enable !inntaggedhash largefiles) \
-		$(use_enable inntaggedhash tagged-hash) \
-		$(use_enable innkeywords keywords)
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}/" P="" SPECIAL="" install
-
-	chown -R root:0 \
-		"${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/$(get_libdir) \
-		"${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/include \
-		"${D}"/usr/share/doc \
-		"${D}"/usr/share/man \
-		|| die
-	chmod 644 "${D}"/etc/news/* || die
-	chmod 640 \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/control.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/expire.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/incoming.conf \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/nntpsend.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/passwd.nntp \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/readers.conf \
-		|| die
-
-	# Prevent old db/* files from being overwritten
-	insinto /usr/share/inn/dbexamples
-	newins site/active.minimal active
-	newins site/newsgroups.minimal newsgroups
-
-	keepdir \
-		/var/log/news \
-		/var/spool/news/archive \
-		/var/spool/news/articles \
-		/var/spool/news/db \
-		/var/spool/news/incoming \
-		/var/spool/news/incoming/bad \
-		/var/spool/news/innfeed \
-		/var/spool/news/outgoing \
-		/var/spool/news/overview \
-		/var/spool/news/tmp
-
-	fowners news:news /var/log/news
-
-	dodoc ChangeLog MANIFEST README* doc/checklist
-	use ipv6 && dodoc doc/IPv6-info
-
-	# So other programs can build against INN
-	insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/include
-	doins include/*.h
-
-	doinitd "${FILESDIR}"/innd
-
-	rm -r "${D}"/var/run
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	for db_file in active newsgroups
-	do
-		[[ -f ${ROOT}/var/spool/news/db/${db_file} ]] && continue
-
-		if [[ -f ${ROOT}/usr/share/inn/dbexamples/${db_file} ]]
-		then
-			cp "${ROOT}"/usr/share/inn/dbexamples/${db_file} \
-				"${ROOT}"/var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		else
-			touch "${ROOT}"/var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		fi
-
-		chown news:news "${ROOT}"/var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		chmod 664 "${ROOT}"/var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-	done
-
-	elog "Do not forget to update your cron entries, and also run"
-	elog "makedbz if you need to.  If this is a first-time installation"
-	elog "a minimal active file has been installed.  You will need to"
-	elog "touch history and run 'makedbz -i' to initialize the history"
-	elog "database.  See INSTALL for more information."
-	elog
-	elog "You need to assign a real shell to the news user, or else"
-	elog "starting inn will fail. You can use 'usermod -s /bin/bash news'"
-	elog "for this."
-
-	if use ssl
-	then
-		install_cert /etc/news/cert/cert
-		chown news:news \
-			"${ROOT}"/etc/news/cert/cert.{crt,csr,key,pem}
-
-		elog
-		elog "You may want to start nnrpd manually for native ssl support."
-		elog "If you choose to do so, automating this with a bootscript might"
-		elog "also be a good choice."
-		elog "Have a look at man nnrpd for valid parameters."
-		elog
-		elog "The certificate location in /etc/news/sasl.conf has been changed"
-		elog "to /etc/news/cert!"
-
-	fi
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	elog
-	elog "If you want your newsspool or altered configuration files"
-	elog "to be removed, please do so now manually."
-	elog
-}
-
-pkg_config() {
-	NEWSSPOOL_DIR="${ROOT}/var/spool/news"
-	NEWS_SHELL="$( awk -F':' '/^news:/ {print $7;}' ${ROOT}/etc/passwd )"
-	NEWS_ERRFLAG="0"
-
-	if [[ ${NEWS_SHELL} == /bin/false || ${NEWS_SHELL} == /dev/null ]]; then
-		einfo "Changing shell to /bin/bash for user news..."
-		usermod -s /bin/bash news
-	else
-		einfo "Shell for user news unchanged ('${NEWS_SHELL}')."
-		if [[ ${NEWS_SHELL} != /bin/sh && ${NEWS_SHELL} != /bin/bash ]]; then
-			ewarn "You might want to change it to '/bin/bash', though."
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	if [[ ! -e ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history ]]; then
-		if [[ ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.dir \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.pag \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.hash \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.index ]]
-		then
-			einfo "Building history database ..."
-
-			touch "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-			chown news:news "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-			chmod 644 "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-
-			einfo "Running makedbz -i ..."
-			su - news -c "/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/makedbz -i"
-
-			einfo "Moving files into place ..."
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.dir ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.dir \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.dir
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.pag ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.pag \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.pag
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.hash ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.hash \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.hash
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.index ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.index \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.index
-
-			einfo "Running makehistory ..."
-			su - news -c /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/makehistory
-		else
-			NEWS_ERRFLAG="1"
-			eerror "Your installation seems to be screwed up."
-			eerror "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history does not exist, but there's"
-			eerror "one of the files history.dir, history.hash or history.index"
-			eerror "within ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db."
-			eerror "Use your backup to restore the history database."
-		fi
-	else
-		einfo "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history found."
-		einfo "Leaving history database as it is."
-	fi
-
-	INNCFG_INODES=$(
-		sed /etc/news/inn.conf \
-			-e '/innwatchspoolnodes/ ! d; s:[^ ]*[ ]*\([^ ]*\):\1:'
-	)
-	INNSPOOL_INODES=$(
-		df -Pi ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR} | \
-			sed -e 's:[^ ]*[ ]*\([^ ]*\).*:\1:; 1 d'
-	)
-	if [[ ${INNCFG_INODES} -gt ${INNSPOOL_INODES} ]]; then
-		ewarn "Setting innwatchspoolinodes to zero, because the filesystem behind"
-		ewarn "$NEWSSPOOL_DIR works without inodes."
-		ewarn
-		cp /etc/news/inn.conf /etc/news/inn.conf.OLD
-		einfo "A copy of your old inn.conf has been saved to /etc/news/inn.conf.OLD."
-		sed -i /etc/news/inn.conf \
-			-e '/innwatchspoolnodes/ s:\([^ ]*\)\([ ]*\).*:\1\20:'
-		chown news:news /etc/news/inn.conf
-		chmod 644 /etc/news/inn.conf
-	fi
-
-	INNCHECK_LINES=$(
-		su - news -c "/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/inncheck | wc -l"
-	)
-	if [[ ${INNCHECK_LINES} -gt 0 ]]; then
-		NEWS_ERRFLAG="1"
-		ewarn "inncheck most certainly found an error."
-		ewarn "Please check its output:"
-		eerror "`su - news -c /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/inncheck`"
-	fi
-
-	if [[ ${NEWS_ERRFLAG} -gt 0 ]]; then
-		eerror "There were one or more errors/warnings checking your"
-		eerror "configuration. Please read inn's documentation and"
-		eerror "fix them accordingly."
-	else
-		einfo "INN configuration tests passed successfully."
-		ewarn "Please ensure you have configured inn properly."
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.3-r3.ebuild b/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.3-r3.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index e356b6892f48..000000000000
--- a/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.3-r3.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,286 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit autotools eutils multilib python-single-r1 ssl-cert toolchain-funcs
-
-DESCRIPTION="The Internet News daemon, fully featured NNTP server"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.isc.org/software/inn"
-SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-# GPL-2 only for init script
-LICENSE="ISC GPL-2+ public-domain BSD-4 BSD-2 RSA BSD MIT GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~x86"
-IUSE="berkdb innkeywords inntaggedhash ipv6 kerberos perl python sasl ssl"
-REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
-
-DEPEND="
-	virtual/mta
-	dev-perl/MIME-tools
-	sys-libs/pam
-	sys-libs/zlib
-	kerberos? ( virtual/krb5 )
-	sasl? ( >=dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2 )
-	ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0= )
-	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
-	berkdb? ( sys-libs/db:* )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	use python && python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-ar.patch
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-tests.patch
-
-	sed -e 's: -B .OLD::' -i Makefile.global.in || die
-
-	# Do not treat LDFLAGS as if it contained libraries to link to
-	sed -e 's:LDFLAGS::g' -i m4/python.m4 || die
-
-	# We do not have the biff service, but we do have comsat
-	sed -e 's:"biff":"comsat":g' -i tests/lib/getnameinfo-t.c || die
-
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	tc-export AR
-
-	econf \
-		--prefix=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news \
-		--sysconfdir=/etc/news \
-		--mandir=/usr/share/man \
-		--infodir=/usr/share/info \
-		--with-control-dir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/control \
-		--with-filter-dir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/filter \
-		--with-db-dir=/var/spool/news/db \
-		--with-doc-dir=/usr/share/doc/${PF} \
-		--with-spool-dir=/var/spool/news \
-		--with-log-dir=/var/log/news \
-		--with-run-dir=/run/news \
-		--with-tmp-dir=/var/spool/news/tmp \
-		--disable-libtool \
-		--with-gnu-ld \
-		--enable-setgid-inews \
-		--enable-uucp-rnews \
-		$(use_with perl) \
-		$(use_with python) \
-		$(use_with kerberos kerberos /usr) \
-		$(use_with sasl) \
-		$(use_with ssl openssl) \
-		$(use_with berkdb berkeleydb /usr) \
-		$(use_enable ipv6) \
-		$(use_enable !inntaggedhash largefiles) \
-		$(use_enable inntaggedhash tagged-hash) \
-		$(use_enable innkeywords keywords)
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}/" P="" SPECIAL="" install
-
-	chown -R root:0 \
-		"${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/$(get_libdir) \
-		"${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/include \
-		"${D}"/usr/share/doc \
-		"${D}"/usr/share/man \
-		|| die
-	chmod 644 "${D}"/etc/news/* || die
-	chmod 640 \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/control.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/expire.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/incoming.conf \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/innfeed.conf \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/nntpsend.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/passwd.nntp \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/readers.conf \
-		|| die
-
-	# Prevent old db/* files from being overwritten
-	insinto /usr/share/inn/dbexamples
-	newins site/active.minimal active
-	newins site/newsgroups.minimal newsgroups
-
-	keepdir \
-		/var/log/news \
-		/var/spool/news/archive \
-		/var/spool/news/articles \
-		/var/spool/news/db \
-		/var/spool/news/incoming \
-		/var/spool/news/incoming/bad \
-		/var/spool/news/innfeed \
-		/var/spool/news/outgoing \
-		/var/spool/news/overview \
-		/var/spool/news/tmp
-
-	fowners news:news /var/log/news
-
-	dodoc ChangeLog MANIFEST README* doc/checklist
-	use ipv6 && dodoc doc/IPv6-info
-
-	# So other programs can build against INN
-	insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/include
-	doins include/*.h
-
-	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/innd-r1 innd
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	for db_file in active newsgroups
-	do
-		[[ -f ${ROOT}var/spool/news/db/${db_file} ]] && continue
-
-		if [[ -f ${ROOT}usr/share/inn/dbexamples/${db_file} ]]
-		then
-			cp "${ROOT}"usr/share/inn/dbexamples/${db_file} \
-				"${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		else
-			touch "${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		fi
-
-		chown news:news "${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		chmod 664 "${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-	done
-
-	elog "It is recommended to run emerge --config ${CATEGORY}/${PN}"
-	elog "now to finish setting up this package."
-	elog
-	elog "Do not forget to update your cron entries, and also run"
-	elog "makedbz if you need to.  If this is a first-time installation"
-	elog "a minimal active file has been installed.  You will need to"
-	elog "touch history and run 'makedbz -i' to initialize the history"
-	elog "database.  See INSTALL for more information."
-	elog
-	elog "You need to assign a real shell to the news user, or else"
-	elog "starting inn will fail. You can use 'usermod -s /bin/bash news'"
-	elog "for this."
-
-	if use ssl
-	then
-		install_cert /etc/news/cert/cert
-		chown news:news \
-			"${ROOT}"etc/news/cert/cert.{crt,csr,key,pem}
-
-		elog
-		elog "You may want to start nnrpd manually for native ssl support."
-		elog "If you choose to do so, automating this with a bootscript might"
-		elog "also be a good choice."
-		elog "Have a look at man nnrpd for valid parameters."
-		elog
-		elog "The certificate location in /etc/news/sasl.conf has been changed"
-		elog "to /etc/news/cert!"
-
-	fi
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	elog
-	elog "If you want your newsspool or altered configuration files"
-	elog "to be removed, please do so now manually."
-	elog
-}
-
-pkg_config() {
-	NEWSSPOOL_DIR="${ROOT}var/spool/news"
-	NEWS_SHELL="$( awk -F':' '/^news:/ {print $7;}' ${ROOT}etc/passwd )"
-	NEWS_ERRFLAG="0"
-
-	if [[ ${NEWS_SHELL} == /bin/false || ${NEWS_SHELL} == /dev/null ]]; then
-		einfo "Changing shell to /bin/bash for user news..."
-		usermod -s /bin/bash news
-	else
-		einfo "Shell for user news unchanged ('${NEWS_SHELL}')."
-		if [[ ${NEWS_SHELL} != /bin/sh && ${NEWS_SHELL} != /bin/bash ]]; then
-			ewarn "You might want to change it to '/bin/bash', though."
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	if [[ ! -e ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history ]]; then
-		if [[ ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.dir \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.pag \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.hash \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.index ]]
-		then
-			einfo "Building history database ..."
-
-			touch "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-			chown news:news "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-			chmod 644 "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-
-			einfo "Running makedbz -i ..."
-			su - news -c "/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/makedbz -i"
-
-			einfo "Moving files into place ..."
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.dir ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.dir \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.dir
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.pag ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.pag \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.pag
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.hash ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.hash \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.hash
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.index ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.index \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.index
-
-			einfo "Running makehistory ..."
-			su - news -c /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/makehistory
-		else
-			NEWS_ERRFLAG="1"
-			eerror "Your installation seems to be screwed up."
-			eerror "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history does not exist, but there's"
-			eerror "one of the files history.dir, history.hash or history.index"
-			eerror "within ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db."
-			eerror "Use your backup to restore the history database."
-		fi
-	else
-		einfo "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history found."
-		einfo "Leaving history database as it is."
-	fi
-
-	INNCFG_INODES=$(
-		sed /etc/news/inn.conf \
-			-e '/innwatchspoolnodes/ ! d; s:[^ ]*[ ]*\([^ ]*\):\1:'
-	)
-	INNSPOOL_INODES=$(
-		df -Pi ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR} | \
-			sed -e 's:[^ ]*[ ]*\([^ ]*\).*:\1:; 1 d'
-	)
-	if [[ ${INNCFG_INODES} -gt ${INNSPOOL_INODES} ]]; then
-		ewarn "Setting innwatchspoolinodes to zero, because the filesystem behind"
-		ewarn "$NEWSSPOOL_DIR works without inodes."
-		ewarn
-		cp /etc/news/inn.conf /etc/news/inn.conf.OLD
-		einfo "A copy of your old inn.conf has been saved to /etc/news/inn.conf.OLD."
-		sed -i /etc/news/inn.conf \
-			-e '/innwatchspoolnodes/ s:\([^ ]*\)\([ ]*\).*:\1\20:'
-		chown news:news /etc/news/inn.conf
-		chmod 644 /etc/news/inn.conf
-	fi
-
-	INNCHECK_LINES=$(
-		su - news -c "/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/inncheck | wc -l"
-	)
-	if [[ ${INNCHECK_LINES} -gt 0 ]]; then
-		NEWS_ERRFLAG="1"
-		ewarn "inncheck most certainly found an error."
-		ewarn "Please check its output:"
-		eerror "`su - news -c /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/inncheck`"
-	fi
-
-	if [[ ${NEWS_ERRFLAG} -gt 0 ]]; then
-		eerror "There were one or more errors/warnings checking your"
-		eerror "configuration. Please read inn's documentation and"
-		eerror "fix them accordingly."
-	else
-		einfo "INN configuration tests passed successfully."
-		ewarn "Please ensure you have configured inn properly."
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.4-r1.ebuild b/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.4-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 19a769d0a7cd..000000000000
--- a/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.4-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,286 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit autotools eutils multilib python-single-r1 ssl-cert toolchain-funcs
-
-DESCRIPTION="The Internet News daemon, fully featured NNTP server"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.isc.org/software/inn"
-SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-# GPL-2 only for init script
-LICENSE="ISC GPL-2+ public-domain BSD-4 BSD-2 RSA BSD MIT GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~x86"
-IUSE="berkdb innkeywords inntaggedhash ipv6 kerberos perl python sasl ssl"
-REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
-
-DEPEND="
-	virtual/mta
-	dev-perl/MIME-tools
-	sys-libs/pam
-	sys-libs/zlib
-	kerberos? ( virtual/krb5 )
-	sasl? ( >=dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2 )
-	ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0= )
-	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
-	berkdb? ( sys-libs/db:* )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	use python && python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.5.3-ar.patch
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.5.3-tests.patch
-
-	sed -e 's: -B .OLD::' -i Makefile.global.in || die
-
-	# Do not treat LDFLAGS as if it contained libraries to link to
-	sed -e 's:LDFLAGS::g' -i m4/python.m4 || die
-
-	# We do not have the biff service, but we do have comsat
-	sed -e 's:"biff":"comsat":g' -i tests/lib/getnameinfo-t.c || die
-
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	tc-export AR
-
-	econf \
-		--prefix=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news \
-		--sysconfdir=/etc/news \
-		--mandir=/usr/share/man \
-		--infodir=/usr/share/info \
-		--with-control-dir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/control \
-		--with-filter-dir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/filter \
-		--with-db-dir=/var/spool/news/db \
-		--with-doc-dir=/usr/share/doc/${PF} \
-		--with-spool-dir=/var/spool/news \
-		--with-log-dir=/var/log/news \
-		--with-run-dir=/run/news \
-		--with-tmp-dir=/var/spool/news/tmp \
-		--disable-libtool \
-		--with-gnu-ld \
-		--enable-setgid-inews \
-		--enable-uucp-rnews \
-		$(use_with perl) \
-		$(use_with python) \
-		$(use_with kerberos kerberos /usr) \
-		$(use_with sasl) \
-		$(use_with ssl openssl) \
-		$(use_with berkdb berkeleydb /usr) \
-		$(use_enable ipv6) \
-		$(use_enable !inntaggedhash largefiles) \
-		$(use_enable inntaggedhash tagged-hash) \
-		$(use_enable innkeywords keywords)
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}/" P="" SPECIAL="" install
-
-	chown -R root:0 \
-		"${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/$(get_libdir) \
-		"${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/include \
-		"${D}"/usr/share/doc \
-		"${D}"/usr/share/man \
-		|| die
-	chmod 644 "${D}"/etc/news/* || die
-	chmod 640 \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/control.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/expire.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/incoming.conf \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/innfeed.conf \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/nntpsend.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/passwd.nntp \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/readers.conf \
-		|| die
-
-	# Prevent old db/* files from being overwritten
-	insinto /usr/share/inn/dbexamples
-	newins site/active.minimal active
-	newins site/newsgroups.minimal newsgroups
-
-	keepdir \
-		/var/log/news \
-		/var/spool/news/archive \
-		/var/spool/news/articles \
-		/var/spool/news/db \
-		/var/spool/news/incoming \
-		/var/spool/news/incoming/bad \
-		/var/spool/news/innfeed \
-		/var/spool/news/outgoing \
-		/var/spool/news/overview \
-		/var/spool/news/tmp
-
-	fowners news:news /var/log/news
-
-	dodoc ChangeLog MANIFEST README* doc/checklist
-	use ipv6 && dodoc doc/IPv6-info
-
-	# So other programs can build against INN
-	insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/include
-	doins include/*.h
-
-	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/innd-r1 innd
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	for db_file in active newsgroups
-	do
-		[[ -f ${ROOT}var/spool/news/db/${db_file} ]] && continue
-
-		if [[ -f ${ROOT}usr/share/inn/dbexamples/${db_file} ]]
-		then
-			cp "${ROOT}"usr/share/inn/dbexamples/${db_file} \
-				"${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		else
-			touch "${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		fi
-
-		chown news:news "${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		chmod 664 "${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-	done
-
-	elog "It is recommended to run emerge --config ${CATEGORY}/${PN}"
-	elog "now to finish setting up this package."
-	elog
-	elog "Do not forget to update your cron entries, and also run"
-	elog "makedbz if you need to.  If this is a first-time installation"
-	elog "a minimal active file has been installed.  You will need to"
-	elog "touch history and run 'makedbz -i' to initialize the history"
-	elog "database.  See INSTALL for more information."
-	elog
-	elog "You need to assign a real shell to the news user, or else"
-	elog "starting inn will fail. You can use 'usermod -s /bin/bash news'"
-	elog "for this."
-
-	if use ssl
-	then
-		install_cert /etc/news/cert/cert
-		chown news:news \
-			"${ROOT}"etc/news/cert/cert.{crt,csr,key,pem}
-
-		elog
-		elog "You may want to start nnrpd manually for native ssl support."
-		elog "If you choose to do so, automating this with a bootscript might"
-		elog "also be a good choice."
-		elog "Have a look at man nnrpd for valid parameters."
-		elog
-		elog "The certificate location in /etc/news/sasl.conf has been changed"
-		elog "to /etc/news/cert!"
-
-	fi
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	elog
-	elog "If you want your newsspool or altered configuration files"
-	elog "to be removed, please do so now manually."
-	elog
-}
-
-pkg_config() {
-	NEWSSPOOL_DIR="${ROOT}var/spool/news"
-	NEWS_SHELL="$( awk -F':' '/^news:/ {print $7;}' ${ROOT}etc/passwd )"
-	NEWS_ERRFLAG="0"
-
-	if [[ ${NEWS_SHELL} == /bin/false || ${NEWS_SHELL} == /dev/null ]]; then
-		einfo "Changing shell to /bin/bash for user news..."
-		usermod -s /bin/bash news
-	else
-		einfo "Shell for user news unchanged ('${NEWS_SHELL}')."
-		if [[ ${NEWS_SHELL} != /bin/sh && ${NEWS_SHELL} != /bin/bash ]]; then
-			ewarn "You might want to change it to '/bin/bash', though."
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	if [[ ! -e ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history ]]; then
-		if [[ ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.dir \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.pag \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.hash \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.index ]]
-		then
-			einfo "Building history database ..."
-
-			touch "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-			chown news:news "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-			chmod 644 "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-
-			einfo "Running makedbz -i ..."
-			su - news -c "/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/makedbz -i"
-
-			einfo "Moving files into place ..."
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.dir ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.dir \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.dir
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.pag ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.pag \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.pag
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.hash ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.hash \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.hash
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.index ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.index \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.index
-
-			einfo "Running makehistory ..."
-			su - news -c /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/makehistory
-		else
-			NEWS_ERRFLAG="1"
-			eerror "Your installation seems to be screwed up."
-			eerror "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history does not exist, but there's"
-			eerror "one of the files history.dir, history.hash or history.index"
-			eerror "within ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db."
-			eerror "Use your backup to restore the history database."
-		fi
-	else
-		einfo "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history found."
-		einfo "Leaving history database as it is."
-	fi
-
-	INNCFG_INODES=$(
-		sed /etc/news/inn.conf \
-			-e '/innwatchspoolnodes/ ! d; s:[^ ]*[ ]*\([^ ]*\):\1:'
-	)
-	INNSPOOL_INODES=$(
-		df -Pi ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR} | \
-			sed -e 's:[^ ]*[ ]*\([^ ]*\).*:\1:; 1 d'
-	)
-	if [[ ${INNCFG_INODES} -gt ${INNSPOOL_INODES} ]]; then
-		ewarn "Setting innwatchspoolinodes to zero, because the filesystem behind"
-		ewarn "$NEWSSPOOL_DIR works without inodes."
-		ewarn
-		cp /etc/news/inn.conf /etc/news/inn.conf.OLD
-		einfo "A copy of your old inn.conf has been saved to /etc/news/inn.conf.OLD."
-		sed -i /etc/news/inn.conf \
-			-e '/innwatchspoolnodes/ s:\([^ ]*\)\([ ]*\).*:\1\20:'
-		chown news:news /etc/news/inn.conf
-		chmod 644 /etc/news/inn.conf
-	fi
-
-	INNCHECK_LINES=$(
-		su - news -c "/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/inncheck | wc -l"
-	)
-	if [[ ${INNCHECK_LINES} -gt 0 ]]; then
-		NEWS_ERRFLAG="1"
-		ewarn "inncheck most certainly found an error."
-		ewarn "Please check its output:"
-		eerror "`su - news -c /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/inncheck`"
-	fi
-
-	if [[ ${NEWS_ERRFLAG} -gt 0 ]]; then
-		eerror "There were one or more errors/warnings checking your"
-		eerror "configuration. Please read inn's documentation and"
-		eerror "fix them accordingly."
-	else
-		einfo "INN configuration tests passed successfully."
-		ewarn "Please ensure you have configured inn properly."
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.5-r1.ebuild b/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.5-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 19a769d0a7cd..000000000000
--- a/net-nntp/inn/inn-2.5.5-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,286 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit autotools eutils multilib python-single-r1 ssl-cert toolchain-funcs
-
-DESCRIPTION="The Internet News daemon, fully featured NNTP server"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.isc.org/software/inn"
-SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-# GPL-2 only for init script
-LICENSE="ISC GPL-2+ public-domain BSD-4 BSD-2 RSA BSD MIT GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~x86"
-IUSE="berkdb innkeywords inntaggedhash ipv6 kerberos perl python sasl ssl"
-REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
-
-DEPEND="
-	virtual/mta
-	dev-perl/MIME-tools
-	sys-libs/pam
-	sys-libs/zlib
-	kerberos? ( virtual/krb5 )
-	sasl? ( >=dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2 )
-	ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0= )
-	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
-	berkdb? ( sys-libs/db:* )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	use python && python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.5.3-ar.patch
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.5.3-tests.patch
-
-	sed -e 's: -B .OLD::' -i Makefile.global.in || die
-
-	# Do not treat LDFLAGS as if it contained libraries to link to
-	sed -e 's:LDFLAGS::g' -i m4/python.m4 || die
-
-	# We do not have the biff service, but we do have comsat
-	sed -e 's:"biff":"comsat":g' -i tests/lib/getnameinfo-t.c || die
-
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	tc-export AR
-
-	econf \
-		--prefix=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news \
-		--sysconfdir=/etc/news \
-		--mandir=/usr/share/man \
-		--infodir=/usr/share/info \
-		--with-control-dir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/control \
-		--with-filter-dir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/filter \
-		--with-db-dir=/var/spool/news/db \
-		--with-doc-dir=/usr/share/doc/${PF} \
-		--with-spool-dir=/var/spool/news \
-		--with-log-dir=/var/log/news \
-		--with-run-dir=/run/news \
-		--with-tmp-dir=/var/spool/news/tmp \
-		--disable-libtool \
-		--with-gnu-ld \
-		--enable-setgid-inews \
-		--enable-uucp-rnews \
-		$(use_with perl) \
-		$(use_with python) \
-		$(use_with kerberos kerberos /usr) \
-		$(use_with sasl) \
-		$(use_with ssl openssl) \
-		$(use_with berkdb berkeleydb /usr) \
-		$(use_enable ipv6) \
-		$(use_enable !inntaggedhash largefiles) \
-		$(use_enable inntaggedhash tagged-hash) \
-		$(use_enable innkeywords keywords)
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}/" P="" SPECIAL="" install
-
-	chown -R root:0 \
-		"${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/$(get_libdir) \
-		"${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/include \
-		"${D}"/usr/share/doc \
-		"${D}"/usr/share/man \
-		|| die
-	chmod 644 "${D}"/etc/news/* || die
-	chmod 640 \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/control.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/expire.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/incoming.conf \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/innfeed.conf \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/nntpsend.ctl \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/passwd.nntp \
-		"${D}"/etc/news/readers.conf \
-		|| die
-
-	# Prevent old db/* files from being overwritten
-	insinto /usr/share/inn/dbexamples
-	newins site/active.minimal active
-	newins site/newsgroups.minimal newsgroups
-
-	keepdir \
-		/var/log/news \
-		/var/spool/news/archive \
-		/var/spool/news/articles \
-		/var/spool/news/db \
-		/var/spool/news/incoming \
-		/var/spool/news/incoming/bad \
-		/var/spool/news/innfeed \
-		/var/spool/news/outgoing \
-		/var/spool/news/overview \
-		/var/spool/news/tmp
-
-	fowners news:news /var/log/news
-
-	dodoc ChangeLog MANIFEST README* doc/checklist
-	use ipv6 && dodoc doc/IPv6-info
-
-	# So other programs can build against INN
-	insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/include
-	doins include/*.h
-
-	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/innd-r1 innd
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	for db_file in active newsgroups
-	do
-		[[ -f ${ROOT}var/spool/news/db/${db_file} ]] && continue
-
-		if [[ -f ${ROOT}usr/share/inn/dbexamples/${db_file} ]]
-		then
-			cp "${ROOT}"usr/share/inn/dbexamples/${db_file} \
-				"${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		else
-			touch "${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		fi
-
-		chown news:news "${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-		chmod 664 "${ROOT}"var/spool/news/db/${db_file}
-	done
-
-	elog "It is recommended to run emerge --config ${CATEGORY}/${PN}"
-	elog "now to finish setting up this package."
-	elog
-	elog "Do not forget to update your cron entries, and also run"
-	elog "makedbz if you need to.  If this is a first-time installation"
-	elog "a minimal active file has been installed.  You will need to"
-	elog "touch history and run 'makedbz -i' to initialize the history"
-	elog "database.  See INSTALL for more information."
-	elog
-	elog "You need to assign a real shell to the news user, or else"
-	elog "starting inn will fail. You can use 'usermod -s /bin/bash news'"
-	elog "for this."
-
-	if use ssl
-	then
-		install_cert /etc/news/cert/cert
-		chown news:news \
-			"${ROOT}"etc/news/cert/cert.{crt,csr,key,pem}
-
-		elog
-		elog "You may want to start nnrpd manually for native ssl support."
-		elog "If you choose to do so, automating this with a bootscript might"
-		elog "also be a good choice."
-		elog "Have a look at man nnrpd for valid parameters."
-		elog
-		elog "The certificate location in /etc/news/sasl.conf has been changed"
-		elog "to /etc/news/cert!"
-
-	fi
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	elog
-	elog "If you want your newsspool or altered configuration files"
-	elog "to be removed, please do so now manually."
-	elog
-}
-
-pkg_config() {
-	NEWSSPOOL_DIR="${ROOT}var/spool/news"
-	NEWS_SHELL="$( awk -F':' '/^news:/ {print $7;}' ${ROOT}etc/passwd )"
-	NEWS_ERRFLAG="0"
-
-	if [[ ${NEWS_SHELL} == /bin/false || ${NEWS_SHELL} == /dev/null ]]; then
-		einfo "Changing shell to /bin/bash for user news..."
-		usermod -s /bin/bash news
-	else
-		einfo "Shell for user news unchanged ('${NEWS_SHELL}')."
-		if [[ ${NEWS_SHELL} != /bin/sh && ${NEWS_SHELL} != /bin/bash ]]; then
-			ewarn "You might want to change it to '/bin/bash', though."
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	if [[ ! -e ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history ]]; then
-		if [[ ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.dir \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.pag \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.hash \
-			&& ! -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.index ]]
-		then
-			einfo "Building history database ..."
-
-			touch "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-			chown news:news "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-			chmod 644 "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history
-
-			einfo "Running makedbz -i ..."
-			su - news -c "/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/makedbz -i"
-
-			einfo "Moving files into place ..."
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.dir ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.dir \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.dir
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.pag ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.pag \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.pag
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.hash ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.hash \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.hash
-			[[ -f ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history.n.index ]] && \
-				mv -vf "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.n.index \
-				"${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}"/db/history.index
-
-			einfo "Running makehistory ..."
-			su - news -c /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/makehistory
-		else
-			NEWS_ERRFLAG="1"
-			eerror "Your installation seems to be screwed up."
-			eerror "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history does not exist, but there's"
-			eerror "one of the files history.dir, history.hash or history.index"
-			eerror "within ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db."
-			eerror "Use your backup to restore the history database."
-		fi
-	else
-		einfo "${NEWSSPOOL_DIR}/db/history found."
-		einfo "Leaving history database as it is."
-	fi
-
-	INNCFG_INODES=$(
-		sed /etc/news/inn.conf \
-			-e '/innwatchspoolnodes/ ! d; s:[^ ]*[ ]*\([^ ]*\):\1:'
-	)
-	INNSPOOL_INODES=$(
-		df -Pi ${NEWSSPOOL_DIR} | \
-			sed -e 's:[^ ]*[ ]*\([^ ]*\).*:\1:; 1 d'
-	)
-	if [[ ${INNCFG_INODES} -gt ${INNSPOOL_INODES} ]]; then
-		ewarn "Setting innwatchspoolinodes to zero, because the filesystem behind"
-		ewarn "$NEWSSPOOL_DIR works without inodes."
-		ewarn
-		cp /etc/news/inn.conf /etc/news/inn.conf.OLD
-		einfo "A copy of your old inn.conf has been saved to /etc/news/inn.conf.OLD."
-		sed -i /etc/news/inn.conf \
-			-e '/innwatchspoolnodes/ s:\([^ ]*\)\([ ]*\).*:\1\20:'
-		chown news:news /etc/news/inn.conf
-		chmod 644 /etc/news/inn.conf
-	fi
-
-	INNCHECK_LINES=$(
-		su - news -c "/usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/inncheck | wc -l"
-	)
-	if [[ ${INNCHECK_LINES} -gt 0 ]]; then
-		NEWS_ERRFLAG="1"
-		ewarn "inncheck most certainly found an error."
-		ewarn "Please check its output:"
-		eerror "`su - news -c /usr/$(get_libdir)/news/bin/inncheck`"
-	fi
-
-	if [[ ${NEWS_ERRFLAG} -gt 0 ]]; then
-		eerror "There were one or more errors/warnings checking your"
-		eerror "configuration. Please read inn's documentation and"
-		eerror "fix them accordingly."
-	else
-		einfo "INN configuration tests passed successfully."
-		ewarn "Please ensure you have configured inn properly."
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/net-nntp/inn/metadata.xml b/net-nntp/inn/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index c3c5f1546ad1..000000000000
--- a/net-nntp/inn/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-<!-- maintainer-needed -->
-<use>
-	<flag name="innkeywords">Enable automatic keyword generation support</flag>
-	<flag name="inntaggedhash">Use tagged hash table for history (disables large
-		file support)</flag>
-</use>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 3bcf29391236..4ccc565cb81a 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -415,10 +415,6 @@ media-libs/schroedinger
 # gstreamer:0.10 (#610434, #560254). Removal in a month.
 app-accessibility/pocketsphinx
 
-# Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> (04 Nov 2018)
-# Fails to build, hard to bump (#608908). Removal in a month.
-net-nntp/inn
-
 # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (03 Nov 2018)
 # Breaks revdeps (GDir and GDirEntry split from gfile.h into new gdir.h)
 # See tracker: https://bugs.gentoo.org/670222