Remove devel branch for obsoleted packages from CVS? (Was: Re: FE Package Status of Mar 22, 2006)

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 3/23/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> I'd rather not remove the devel branches as we could potentially lose
> history that way, especially if we ever have to bring a package back.
> I'd rather go with creating a file, eg, dead.package in the devel branch
> and hopefully have it filled with the justification for _why_ it's no
> longer needed.  Then, we can use that file to key that it's a devel
> branch which shouldn't need branching for new releases

And Christian's state-of-fedora scripts can eat dead.package files and
the reasons therein instead of having to try to keep up with the state
of deadness by hand.

-jef