hyperscan: remove package
authorJohn Audia <[email protected]>
Tue, 2 Sep 2025 18:02:58 +0000 (14:02 -0400)
committerHannu Nyman <[email protected]>
Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:52:48 +0000 (06:52 +0300)
commitcd6de3f1db473432ba54c118007cc372a5c3a7f1
tree6940cd91f6ce6b83e8d95247a7962af874039ee0
parent0d643c23dd7e8de39792329465a5a249ef26d08e
hyperscan: remove package

Remove hyperscan since Intel announced a proprietary/closed source
license beginning with hyperscan 5.5[1,2] and a general lock of support
for the 5.4.x branch which has not seen a commit since 19-Apr-2023[3].

1. https://networkbuilders.intel.com/docs/networkbuilders/accelerate-snort-performance-with-hyperscan-and-intel-xeon-processors-on-public-clouds-1680176363.pdf
2. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Hyperscan-Now-Proprietary (and references therein)
3. intel/hyperscan@bc3b191

Signed-off-by: John Audia <[email protected]>
libs/hyperscan/Makefile [deleted file]
libs/hyperscan/patches/0001-CMakeLists.txt-hack-for-our-build-system.patch [deleted file]