diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/django-dpaste-0.2.4.tar.gz
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
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index 0000000..5784d07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dead.package
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2014-06-04 - This package was already retired in pkgdb/blocked in koji, but no dead.package file existed. The original retirement reason is unclear.
diff --git a/django-dpaste.spec b/django-dpaste.spec
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-#$Id$
-
-%if ! (0%{?fedora} > 12 || 0%{?rhel} > 5)
-%{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())")}
-%{!?python_sitearch: %global python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(1))")}
-%endif
-
-
-Summary:	Dpaste is a code paste-bin application using Django
-Name:		django-dpaste
-Version:	0.2.4
-Release:	3%{?dist}
-License:	BSD with advertising
-Group:		Development/Libraries
-URL:		http://code.google.com/p/django-paste/	
-SOURCE:		http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/django-dpaste/django-dpaste-0.2.4.tar.gz
-Patch1:		setuptools.patch
-BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
-BuildArch:	noarch
-BuildRequires:	python2-devel python-setuptools
-Requires:	django-mptt python-pygments
-
-%description
-Originally inspired by dpaste.com this application adds the ability to:
-
-See the differences between snippets
-A history of snippets as a tree
-See your latest 25 snippets (admin setting)
-A huge bunch of syntax highlighters (lexers)
-User defined settings to change the font-family as well as font-sizes
-Nicer colors
-Multilangual interface
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}
-# the following line is to account for a build problem thats outside of my control
-# it will be fixed upstream very soon, but I don't see it as a reason to delay packaging
-find $buildroot -type f \( -name .DS_Store -o -name ._\* \) -print0 |xargs -0 rm -f
-rm -rf dpaste/templates/dpaste/.tmp* 
-%if 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} <= 5
-%patch1 -p1 
-%endif
-%build
-%{__python} setup.py build
-
-%install
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root="%{buildroot}" --prefix="%{_prefix}"
-
-%clean
-rm  -rf %{buildroot}
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc CHANGELOG LICENSE MANIFEST.in README.rst
-%{python_sitelib}/django_dpaste-%{version}-py2.*
-%{python_sitelib}/dpaste
-%lang(en) %{python_sitelib}/dpaste/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo
-%lang(de) %{python_sitelib}/dpaste/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo
-
-%changelog
-* Fri Apr 08 2011 Dave Riches <dcr226@fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.4-3
-- Added patch to build for epel5
-
-* Thu Oct 21 2010 Dave Riches <dcr226@fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.4-2
-- Fixed dependency issue
-
-* Fri Aug 20 2010 Dave Riches <dcr226@fedoraproject.org> - 0.2-1
-- Packaged for Fedora 12/13/14
-
-* Fri Nov 28 2008 martin@mahner.org
-- added user-defined exipration for snippets
-- added a management command to purge old snippets
-- new secret ids - This is backwards incompatible!
-- User can delete his snippet at any time
-- added this changelog :)
-
diff --git a/setuptools.patch b/setuptools.patch
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-diff -rU4 django-dpaste-0.2.4/setup.py django-dpaste-0.2.4.new/setup.py
---- django-dpaste-0.2.4/setup.py	2008-11-28 15:46:42.000000000 +0000
-+++ django-dpaste-0.2.4.new/setup.py	2011-04-08 18:20:22.817492687 +0100
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- import os
--from distutils.core import setup
-+from setuptools import setup
- from distutils.command.install import INSTALL_SCHEMES
- 
- app_name = 'dpaste'
- app_url = 'http://github.com/bartTC/django-paste/'
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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-d485d3c2303e576d2e24ee45390bbc44  django-dpaste-0.2.4.tar.gz