diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/dead.package
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This package was retired on 2011-07-25 due to it being unable to build this package for multiple releases (FTBFS).
diff --git a/gnome-applet-cpufire-1.6-dsofix.patch b/gnome-applet-cpufire-1.6-dsofix.patch
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index 7435ea3..0000000
--- a/gnome-applet-cpufire-1.6-dsofix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -dur cpufire_applet-1.6.orig/src/Makefile.in cpufire_applet-1.6/src/Makefile.in
---- cpufire_applet-1.6.orig/src/Makefile.in	2009-07-25 23:14:19.000000000 +0200
-+++ cpufire_applet-1.6/src/Makefile.in	2010-02-17 13:48:31.000000000 +0100
-@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
- INTLTOOL_MERGE = @INTLTOOL_MERGE@
- INTLTOOL_PERL = @INTLTOOL_PERL@
- INTLTOOL_UPDATE = @INTLTOOL_UPDATE@
--LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@
-+LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@ -lm
- LIBGLADE_CFLAGS = @LIBGLADE_CFLAGS@
- LIBGLADE_LIBS = @LIBGLADE_LIBS@
- LIBOBJS = @LIBOBJS@
diff --git a/gnome-applet-cpufire.spec b/gnome-applet-cpufire.spec
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index d8f424b..0000000
--- a/gnome-applet-cpufire.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-# reviewed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513797
-
-%global srcname cpufire_applet
-
-Name:           gnome-applet-cpufire
-Version:        1.6
-Release:        4%{?dist}
-Summary:        GNOME panel applet showing the CPU load as a fire
-
-Group:          User Interface/Desktops
-License:        GPLv2+
-URL:            http://strongm.ath.cx/
-Source0:        http://strongm.ath.cx/projects/cpufire/%{srcname}-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch0:         gnome-applet-cpufire-1.6-dsofix.patch
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-
-BuildRequires:  gnome-panel-devel >= 2.6
-BuildRequires:  libgtop2-devel
-BuildRequires:  gettext
-BuildRequires:  intltool
-BuildRequires:  perl(XML::Parser)
-BuildRequires:  gnome-doc-utils
-BuildRequires:  scrollkeeper
-Requires(post): scrollkeeper
-Requires(postun): scrollkeeper
-
-Requires:       gnome-panel, gnome-system-monitor
-Provides:       cpufire-applet = %{version}
-
-%description
-A CPU load monitor, that comes as a gnome panel applet. CPU load is displayed
-as a beautiful fire, the higher the flames the higher the CPU load.
-
-%prep
-%setup -qn %{srcname}-%{version}
-%patch0 -p1 -b .dsofix
-
-
-%build
-%configure
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
-
-
-%install
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot} INSTALL="install -p"
-%find_lang %{srcname}-1.0
-
-
-%clean
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-
-
-%post
-scrollkeeper-update -q -o %{_datadir}/omf/cpufire || :
-
-
-%postun
-scrollkeeper-update -q || :
-
-
-%files -f %{srcname}-1.0.lang
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog README
-%{_libexecdir}/cpufire_applet
-%{_libdir}/bonobo/servers/GNOME_CPUFireApplet.server
-%{_datadir}/gnome-2.0/ui/GNOME_CPUFireApplet.xml
-%{_datadir}/cpufire-applet/
-%doc %{_datadir}/gnome/help/cpufire/
-%{_datadir}/omf/cpufire/
-
-
-%changelog
-* Tue Feb 08 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6-4
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Wed Feb 17 2010 Christoph Wickert <cwickert@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6-3
-- Add patch to fix DSO linking (#564800)
-
-* Sun Jul 26 2009 Christoph Wickert <cwickert@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6-2
-- Own %%{_datadir}/omf/cpufire/
-- minor specfile clean ups from the review (#513797)
-
-* Sun Jul 26 2009 Christoph Wickert <cwickert@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6-1
-- Update to 1.6, fixed a bug introduced in 1.5
-
-* Thu Jul 16 2009 Christoph Wickert <cwickert@fedoraproject.org> - 1.5-1
-- Update to 1.5
-
-* Fri Apr 24 2009 Christoph Wickert <cwickert@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4-1
-- Update to 1.4
-
-* Thu May 03 2007 Christoph Wickert <wickerpms at arcor.de> - 1.3-1
-- Upadte to 1.3
-
-* Tue Jul 18 2006 Christoph Wickert <wickerpms at arcor.de> - 1.2-1
-- Upadte to 1.2
-
-* Mon Sep 19 2005 Christoph Wickert <wickerpms at arcor.de> - 1.1-1
-- Initial package for Fedora Extras.
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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--- a/sources
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-5837d2abf7eabd1e4985817efccf4bb4  cpufire_applet-1.6.tar.gz