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

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 17:00 +0100, Christian.Iseli at licr.org wrote:
> katzj at redhat.com said:
> > 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 
> 
> I like this idea.  Easy to automate checks.  If it happens, could the 
> Makefile.common be tweaked to reject a build while the dead.package file 
> exists ?  (Please :-) ?)

Sure, that's trivial :)

Jeremy