diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 04ca0b5..0000000
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-zapplet-0.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index bd6cfac..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Makefile for source rpm: zapplet
-# $Id$
-NAME := zapplet
-SPECFILE = $(firstword $(wildcard *.spec))
-
-define find-makefile-common
-for d in common ../common ../../common ; do if [ -f $$d/Makefile.common ] ; then if [ -f $$d/CVS/Root -a -w $$/Makefile.common ] ; then cd $$d ; cvs -Q update ; fi ; echo "$$d/Makefile.common" ; break ; fi ; done
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON := $(shell $(find-makefile-common))
-
-ifeq ($(MAKEFILE_COMMON),)
-# attept a checkout
-define checkout-makefile-common
-test -f CVS/Root && { cvs -Q -d $$(cat CVS/Root) checkout common && echo "common/Makefile.common" ; } || { echo "ERROR: I can't figure out how to checkout the 'common' module." ; exit -1 ; } >&2
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON := $(shell $(checkout-makefile-common))
-endif
-
-include $(MAKEFILE_COMMON)
diff --git a/README.fedora b/README.fedora
deleted file mode 100644
index fbba5cb..0000000
--- a/README.fedora
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-To have Zapplet start on login use the following command as root: 
-'cp /usr/share/applications/zapplet.desktop  /etc/xdg/autostart/zapplet.desktop'
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1eda3ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dead.package
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+2017-02-17: Retired orphaned package, because it was orphaned for
+more than six weeks.
+
diff --git a/import.log b/import.log
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index 4accb16..0000000
--- a/import.log
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-zapplet-0_1-3:HEAD:zapplet-0.1-3.src.rpm:1232129636
-zapplet-0_1-4_fc10:HEAD:zapplet-0.1-4.fc10.src.rpm:1232367927
diff --git a/sources b/sources
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e419ba..0000000
--- a/sources
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-d12db237f805d6711d8d720080e06eaa  zapplet-0.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/zapplet.spec b/zapplet.spec
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index 1c7a583..0000000
--- a/zapplet.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-%{!?python_sitelib: %define python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
-Name:           zapplet
-Version:        0.1
-Release:        6%{dist} 
-Summary:        Zenoss Tray Applet
-Group:          Applications/Communications
-License:        GPLv2+
-URL:            http://zapplet.sourceforge.net
-Source0:        http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zapplet/zapplet-%{version}.tar.gz
-Source1:        http://ke4qqq.fedorapeople.org/zapplet/README.fedora
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-BuildRequires:  python
-BuildRequires:  python-setuptools-devel 
-BuildRequires:  desktop-file-utils
-Requires:       pygtk2 
-BuildArch:      noarch
-
-%description
-Zapplet is a tray applet for monitoring aspects of Zenoss from the desktop. 
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -n zapplet-%{version}
-cp %{SOURCE1} ./README.fedora
-%build
-CFLAGS="%{optflags}" %{__python} setup.py build
-
-%install
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root %{buildroot}
-
-desktop-file-install --add-category="Network" --dir=%{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications zapplet.desktop
-rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart/zapplet.desktop
-
-%clean 
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%{python_sitelib}/*
-%{_bindir}/%{name} 
-%{_datadir}/applications/zapplet.desktop
-%doc README.fedora
-%changelog
-* Mon Jul 27 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.1-6
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.1-5
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Mon Jan 19 2009 David Nalley <david@gnsa.us> 0.1-4
-- Made changes suggested by ianweller to fix cvs issues
-* Sun Dec 28 2008 David Nalley <david@gnsa.us> 0.1-3
-- Made changes suggested by Brian Pepple
-* Sat Dec 27 2008 David Nalley <david@gnsa.us> 0.1-2
-- Making corrections suggested by Fabian Affolter
-* Sun Dec 14 2008 David Nalley <david@gnsa.us> 0.1-1
-- Initial packaging efforts
-