zombie packages.

[Dave Jones]

There seems to be a number of 'not quite dead' packages in CVS, that
lack a dead.package, but have had an empty sources file for some time now.
(There's also a few from the last few weeks in the list below).

I stumbled across this on one of my 'make prep the whole distro' crusades.
This process now takes over a day to unpack the source for everything.
A clear sign of how much we've grown. (When I started doing this, it was
feasible to do it in an afternoon).   However there are a number of packages
that fail 'make prep' in assorted ways, which means it can't be left
unattended to do its thing.  The simplest (and most common) failure type
is this one, which makes rpmq hang until it gets a ctrl-D

I adapted my script to deal with zero byte 'sources' files, but for completeness,
if any of the packages below are actually dead, we should drop a dead.package
file in their devel dirs.

Package names and last commit message below..

	Dave

classpathx-jxp
 date: 2007/02/13 19:24:08;  author: notting;  state: Exp;
 Setup of module classpathx-jaxp

dom2-core-tests
 date: 2007/03/07 19:10:22;  author: ausil;  state: Exp;
 Setup of module dom2-core-tests

freeipmi
 date: 2007/11/07 14:39:17;  author: ausil;  state: Exp;
 Setup of module freeimpi

GConf2-dbus
 date: 2007/06/18 16:38:44;  author: tibbs;  state: Exp;
 Setup of module GConf2-dbus

hulahop
 date: 2007/06/25 19:09:24;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
 Setup of module hulahop

matchbox-window-manager
date: 2007/06/20 16:33:24;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
Setup of module matchbox-window-manager

mybashburn
date: 2008/02/18 17:21:24;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
Setup of module mybashburn

mysql-connector-net
date: 2006/09/28 19:13:14;  author: pfj;  state: Exp;
Setup of module mysql-connector-net

ohm
date: 2007/07/12 17:22:51;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
Setup of module ohm

olpc-hardware-manager
date: 2007/06/19 22:50:18;  author: tibbs;  state: Exp;
Setup of module olpc-hardware-manager

olpc-utils
date: 2007/06/25 18:51:26;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
Setup of module olpc-utils

perl-HTML-Tidy
date: 2008/01/21 16:58:13;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
Setup of module perl-HTML-Tidy

pigment-python
date: 2008/02/13 17:33:47;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
Setup of module pigment-python

python-gasp
date: 2008/02/13 17:33:47;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
Setup of module pigment-python

python-mechanoid
date: 2007/06/10 05:26:31;  author: tibbs;  state: Exp;
Setup of module python-mechanoid

python-olpcgames
date: 2007/08/13 23:03:03;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
Setup of module python-olpcgames

rt61pci-firmware
date: 2007/09/19 04:01:10;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
Setup of module rt61pci-firmware

rt73usb-firmware
date: 2007/09/26 16:43:04;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
Setup of module rt73usb-firmware

sarai-fonts
date: 2008/02/18 20:17:04;  author: kevin;  state: Exp;
Setup of module sarai-fonts

saxon8
date: 2007/03/05 00:17:26;  author: petersen;  state: Exp;
Setup of module saxon8

sugar-toolkit
date: 2008/02/08 18:21:41;  author: ausil;  state: Exp;
Setup of module sugar-toolkit

tdma
date: 2007/03/07 19:03:54;  author: ausil;  state: Exp;
Setup of module tdma



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