#5975: Please remove the following retired 'EPEL 5' packages from the 'ppc' epel-5 tree

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#5975: Please remove the following retired 'EPEL 5' packages from the 'ppc' epel-5
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  Reporter:  mharmsen         |      Owner:  rel-eng@…
      Type:  task             |     Status:  new
 Milestone:  Fedora 20 Final  |  Component:  koji
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:
Blocked By:                   |   Blocking:
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Changes (by mharmsen):

 * cc: nkinder@…, kwright@… (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:1 till]:
 > Why were they retired? They lack a dead.package file describing the
 reason.

 I do not know how long these packages have actually been retired, however,
 it should be noted that none of these packages have been touched in over
 four years:

 * [http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=169315 pki-
 console-1.3.2-1.el5] (28 Apr 2010)
 * [http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=166338 pki-
 ra-1.3.1-1.el5] (10 Apr 2010)
 * [http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=166339 pki-
 tps-1.3.1-1.el5] (10 Apr 2010)
 * [http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=166346
 tomcatjss-1.2.1-1.el5] (10 Apr 2010)

 The 'pki-console', 'pki-ra', and 'pki-tps' packages are part of a RHEL 5
 layered product that has never been supported on the 'ppc' platform.

 The 'tomcatjss' package is a low-level component that is utilized solely
 by this RHEL 5 layered product and therefore has also never been supported
 on the 'ppc' platform.

 Further, there was a determination at one point in the distant past that
 EPEL packages would no longer be built for this specific RHEL 5 layered
 product. (I do not know if the 'dead.package' file that you refer to was
 even the method utilized at that time).

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