Current master git branch for automake17 says the package is dead:

commit 4511d86178f987151fc0b993856aee87bce6df57
Author: Pavel Raiskup <praiskup>
Date:   Wed May 15 17:20:37 2013 +0200

    obsoleted by up2date 'automake' package

However the package has not yet been blocked in rawhide:



# LANG=en yum install automake17
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package automake17.noarch 0:1.7.9-19.fc20 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: autoconf >= 2.54 for package: automake17-1.7.9-19.fc20.noarch
--> Running transaction check
---> Package autoconf.noarch 0:2.69-11.fc20 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
--> Finding unneeded leftover dependencies
Found and removing 0 unneeded dependencies

Dependencies Resolved

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 Package            Arch           Version                Repository       Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 automake17         noarch         1.7.9-19.fc20          rawhide         333 k
Installing for dependencies:
 autoconf           noarch         2.69-11.fc20           rawhide         701 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package (+1 Dependent package)

You have to ask rel-engs for blocking the package in rawhide <https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/search?q=automake17> otherwise the package will remain available in the RPM repository.

Please follow the <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life>.