Provenpackager help for razertool removal

Nicola Soranzo nsoranzo at tiscali.it
Sun Jun 5 11:19:46 UTC 2011


razertool package is dead upstream and has been deprecated by its maintainer 
Andreas Osowski (th0br0). Unfortunately he didn't complete all the steps to 
correctly remove a package:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life

I reported the problem at

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700756

but there was no progress. So, I asked to block razertool from future composes 
(step 6 of the mentioned procedure):

https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4766

Only steps 2 and 3 remain, for which I am asking the help of a provenpackager:

2) Run fedpkg retire. This will add a dead.package file to git. Do it for all 
affected foo branches (usually master only, but also the branched release if 
it has not yet released). The contents of this file should briefly explain 
where this package went: 'Obsolete package.', 'Renamed to bar' or the like.
3) git rm all the other files in the foo branches that you added dead.package 
to. This should help make it clearly obvious what's going on here. It's not 
necessary to remove the files in other branches, unless there are other 
factors at work. (e.g., licensing issue, package being removed completely from 
Fedora.) 

Thanks in advance!

Nicola


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