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| {{autolang|base=yes}} | | {{admon/warning |This page has been moved out of the wiki. The current version of this document is located at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retirement_Process/ Please update your bookmarks.}} |
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| When a package reaches the end of its useful life, the following procedure will let other people -- and automated processes! -- know both not to expect any more releases, and why it was removed. The process is simple.
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| Please execute the following steps in the order indicated.
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| # Make sure the package is properly Obsoleted/Provided by something '''if''' it is being replaced, see [[Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Existing_Packages|Renaming/Replacing Guidelines]]. If not, go on to the next step.
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| # Run <code>fedpkg retire MSG</code>. This will recursively remove all files, then add a <code>dead.package</code> file to git. Do it for all affected package branches (usually <code>master</code> only, but also the branched release if it has not yet released). The MSG parameter is a message which should briefly explain where this package went ('Obsolete package', 'Renamed to bar' or the like) and will be written in the dead.package file.
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| # <code>git rm</code> all files in the other branches '''only if''' there are special factors at work, like licensing issues, or package being removed completely from Fedora.
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| # Remove the package from [[How_to_use_and_edit_comps.xml_for_package_groups| comps]] if it is listed.
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| # Check for and remove the package from any spins kickstarts files: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git
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| # Mark the package as "retired" in [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb the package database system]: log in with your FAS credentials, go to the page for your package, and click the '''Retire package''' button for each branch on which you are retiring the package. Do '''not''' execute this step if you don't have already completed steps 2 and 3, otherwise you will have to ask a [[Provenpackager policy|provenpackager]] to perform those steps for you.
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| # If the package was registered on [[Upstream_release_monitoring]], remove it from that page
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| # File a [https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/newticket ticket] for rel-eng (component koji) asking the package to be blocked from the appropriate collections in which it is retired.
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| Note that you can use this process for specific EPEL branches as well, for example if your package has been added to base RHEL. Just do the steps only on/refering to the specific branch (eg, el6)
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