Re: How to deal with dist-git repository of packages never imported

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 01:39:59PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:11 PM Mattia Verga
>  <mattia.verga(a)protonmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > I've started to clean up the list of approved review-tickets which were
>  > never closed when I found https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564412
>  >
>  > The package bwping was approved and a git repo created, but it always
>  > have been empty. It's currently orphaned both on Fedora and EPEL, but it
>  > was never retired. So, I think this is an anomaly of the auto retirement
>  > script.
>  >
>  > Apart from that, I'm wondering what's the best course of action to do
>  > with this package: should I self take and retire it, or it is best to
>  > completely delete the git repo since nothing has never been in it? Is it
>  > possible, and how?
>  >
>  
>  I think in this circumstance, it would just make sense to delete the
>  repo and clear everything out. 
Is there a src.fedoraproject.org project and is it in pdc yet?

If it's just the repo, I'm fine with deleting it and saying it never
happened. :) 

If it's other places, it might actually be easier to take the package,
then instantly retire it with a dead.package so everyone knows what
happened. 

kevin