Removing Publican and fop from EPEL5

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 11 December 2012 18:20, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Eric H. Christensen wrote:
>> This is a good point.  Unfortunately this would lead to the only option
>> being to remove fop and Publican from EPEL5 because fop is broken...
>> badly.
>>
>> If no one needs it then I'll just retire it.
>
> Uh, I don't think it's possible to retire shipped packages. (At least in
> Fedora, it isn't.) Once shipped for a given Fedora/EL release, it's shipped
> forever for that release.

No we have and will retire packages from EPEL if they can no longer be
maintained.

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