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

Ken Dreyer ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com
Mon Aug 24 17:29:17 UTC 2015


On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 08:45:30PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
>> 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."
>
> EPEL-only packages should be retired as described in the FAQ:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#Is_it_possible_to_get_a_package_only_into_EPEL_and_not_Fedora.3F
>
> Regards
> Till

Thanks Kevin and Till. I've done the Rawhide retirement for
mod_proxy_fcgi (an EPEL 6-only package).

- Ken


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