Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:17:21 +0100, Milos wrote:

> On 15.1.2010 07:00, Matt Domsch wrote:
> 
> > synce-kde-0.9.1-4.fc11.src.rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539195
> 
> Synce-kde should be EOL'd already a long time (it has been replaced by 
> something else, can't remember details unfortunately anymore) -- I spoke 
> about this with the maintainer some months ago and wonder this is still 
> on the list...

I only remember that synce-hal replaced synce-serial, ... but in case
synce-kde really has been replaced by something, what is so difficult
about removing files in cvs and adding a dead.package? I can understand
that creating a releng ticket for the remaining steps is a bit of a hurdle,
but removing files in cvs/devel is easy enough.