diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4004f75..0000000
--- a/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# workspace
-
-The **workspace** package
-
-Documentation files in markdown format are include in the package:
-
-* introduction
-> /usr/share/doc/workspace/README.md
-
-* user guide
-> /usr/share/doc/workspace/user-guide.md
-
-* administration guide
-> /usr/share/doc/workspace/admin-guide.md
-
-
-
-Online you can see
-
-* introduction
-https://github.com/holgerBerger/hpc-workspace/blob/master/README.md
-
-* user guide
-https://github.com/holgerBerger/hpc-workspace/blob/master/user-guide.md
-
-* administration guide
-https://github.com/holgerBerger/hpc-workspace/blob/master/admin-guide.md
-
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5204a84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dead.package
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Orphaned for 6+ weeks
diff --git a/sources b/sources
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b7b3cc..0000000
--- a/sources
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-SHA512 (workspace-1.3.0.tar.gz) = 08f8e8d9e05d2d8acbb7236d64d1f97769165b938b74686a5d55e8e41499ebc1465353d2488aa06b1ef2ae33e99066686196bbdea7e1fc63dcc92ddf010b8191
diff --git a/workspace.spec b/workspace.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index 5744dd9..0000000
--- a/workspace.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-%global _hardened_build 1
-
-Name:		workspace
-
-Version:	1.3.0
-Release:	1%{?dist}
-Summary:	A tool to create scratch directories by users with an expiration date
-
-License:	GPLv3
-URL:		https://github.com/holgerBerger/hpc-workspace
-Source0:	https://github.com/holgerBerger/hpc-workspace/archive/v%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-
-#BuildRequires:	sed
-BuildRequires:	gcc
-BuildRequires:	gcc-c++
-BuildRequires:	cmake
-BuildRequires:	boost-devel
-BuildRequires:	ncurses-devel
-BuildRequires:	yaml-cpp-devel
-BuildRequires:	python3-pyyaml
-
-Requires:	python3-pyyaml
-
-
-%description
-A **workspace** is a directory, with an associated expiration date, created on
-behalf of a user, to prevent disks from uncontrolled filling.
-The project provides user and admin tools to manage those directories.
-
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -n hpc-%{name}-%{version}
-# - remove the cmake_cxx_flags settings in the file CMakeLists.txt because this
-#   override the build flags form the optflags macro and so allows the use of
-#   the cmake macro in this spec file
-sed -e '/^SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-Wall -g")/d' -i CMakeLists.txt
-
-
-%build
-%cmake .
-%make_build
-
-
-%install
-%make_install
-install -p -m 755 contribs/ws_prepare %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/ws_prepare
-
-
-%files
-%license LICENSE
-%doc README.md admin-guide.md user-guide.md ws.conf ws.conf_full_sample
-%{_bindir}/ws_extend
-%{_bindir}/ws_find
-%{_bindir}/ws_list
-%{_bindir}/ws_register
-%{_bindir}/ws_send_ical
-# sbin/ws_restore is only for root
-%{_sbindir}/ws_*
-%{_mandir}/man1/ws_*
-
-# this files need setuid
-%defattr(4111,root,root)
-%{_bindir}/ws_allocate
-%{_bindir}/ws_release
-%{_bindir}/ws_restore
-
-
-%changelog
-* Tue Jun 02 2020 Gerd Pokorra <gp@zimt.uni-siegen.de> - 1.3.0-1
-- update to version 1.3.0
-- remove patch and work with sed
-
-* Sat Mar 28 2020 Gerd Pokorra <gp@zimt.uni-siegen.de> - 1.1.0-5
-- add a comment above the patch to explain it
-- separate BRs one per line
-
-* Mon Mar 23 2020 Gerd Pokorra <gp@zimt.uni-siegen.de> - 1.1.0-4
-- wrap description
-
-* Wed Mar 18 2020 Gerd Pokorra <gp@zimt.uni-siegen.de> - 1.1.0-3
-- remove the CXXFLAGS settings in CMakeLists.txt
-
-* Tue Mar 17 2020 Gerd Pokorra <gp@zimt.uni-siegen.de> - 1.1.0-2
-- add use of _hardened_build
-
-* Tue Mar 17 2020 Gerd Pokorra <gp@zimt.uni-siegen.de> - 1.1.0-1
-- add patch for version number
-- improved the source tag
-- updated to the new upstream version
-- initail spec file