diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
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 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
 
+# Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> (10 Jan 2018)
+# Dead upstream, Broken since 2009.
+# Bug #644146. Removal in 30 days
+dev-perl/SVN-Simple
+
 # Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (10 Jan 2018)
 # The Fuzzer library is now installed as part of core LLVM. That's
 # sys-devel/llvm in LLVM 5, and sys-libs/compiler-rt-sanitizers