Package repositories missing both a spec file and a dead.package file

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Aug 21 18:45:30 UTC 2015


Rex Dieter wrote:
> At least some of these are epel-only packages (examples below)
> 
> dead.package I thought was only applicable to packages that existed in
> fedora, then were EOL'd.  Should that case be handled differently?

EPEL-only packages should have their devel branch (and any other Fedora 
branches if they were already created) properly retired including adding the 
dead.package file. It can say something like "EPEL-only package."

        Kevin Kofler



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