The proper procedure for retiring a package (i.e. completely removing from the distribution for future releases) is documented here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife No parts of this procedure were properly followed. dead.package was added but no explanation given as per step 2. Nor were the "cvs rm" done, nor mail sent to rel-eng, nor was it added to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/RetiredPackages if this was simply an orphaning of a package, a completely different procedure should have be done, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/OrphanedPackages Can the maintainer please clarify his intention, otherwise I am initiating the non-responsive procedure as per: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/NonResponsiveMaintainers
OK, I went ahead and did some of the missing steps on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/RetiredPackages because the CVS commit on 2008/08/09 15:56:38 by maintainer hguemar made clear the intention "remove gtkmozembedmm from devel branch (future F-10) since it has no more active upstream" I have now "cvs rm" all other files (except for dead.package), added it to the retired package list and opened up a rel-eng request for blocking: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/845
PS, I checked with repoquery that nothing else appears to depend on this package as far as I can tell: $ repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps --recursive gtkmozembedmm gtkmozembedmm-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-21.fc9.x86_64 gtkmozembedmm-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-17.fc9.x86_64 gtkmozembedmm-devel-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-21.fc9.x86_64 gtkmozembedmm-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-21.fc9.i386 gtkmozembedmm-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-17.fc9.i386 gtkmozembedmm-devel-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-17.fc9.x86_64 gtkmozembedmm-devel-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-17.fc9.i386 gtkmozembedmm-devel-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-21.fc9.i386 $ repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps --recursive libgtkmozembedmm-1.4.so.0 gtkmozembedmm-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-21.fc9.x86_64 gtkmozembedmm-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-17.fc9.x86_64 gtkmozembedmm-devel-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-21.fc9.x86_64 gtkmozembedmm-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-21.fc9.i386 gtkmozembedmm-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-17.fc9.i386 gtkmozembedmm-devel-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-17.fc9.x86_64 gtkmozembedmm-devel-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-17.fc9.i386 gtkmozembedmm-devel-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-21.fc9.i386
rel-eng has now blocked package from rawhide. Closing bug.