On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Till Maas <opensou...@till.name> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 08:32:42PM -0700, Dave Johansen wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I didn't notice it mentioned in the wikis that I read about
> renaming
> > that they shouldn't be retired from stable branches. It would probably be
> > helpful if that sort of information there. Or even better, if fedpkg
> > prevented or at least warned about this sort of thing.
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Renaming_Process
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life
>
> fedpkg could probably check this nowadays, since we track whether
> retiring is allowed in package DB. Would you mind filing a RFE for this?
> Improving the wiki documentation is also a good suggestion - could you
> add your suggestions to the pages? I will then check whether it is
> technically correct.
>

Created an issue:
https://pagure.io/fedpkg/issue/24

For the wiki, I would recommend that the GIT section be changed to read
something like this:
Run fedpkg retire DESCRIPTION in all non-stable Fedora branches and EPEL
branches, if applicable. The retiring needs to start with the oldest branch
(e.g. retire on f22 before you retire on master)
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