diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 3df8740..0000000
--- a/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Ajaxterm-0.10.tar.gz
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
index 6c90bdc..c842c49 100644
--- a/dead.package
+++ b/dead.package
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-This package was retired on 2011-07-25 due to it being unable to build this package for multiple releases (FTBFS).
+2014-12-20: Retired orphaned package, because it was not built.
+