diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ba1e33..0000000
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-pyenchant-1.1.5.tar.gz
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index d7f0d83..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Makefile for source rpm: python-enchant
-# $Id: Makefile,v 1.1 2006/02/01 14:48:41 roozbeh Exp $
-NAME := python-enchant
-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 $(MAKEFILE_COMMON)
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d9f2c42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dead.package
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+2014-10-18: Retired, because it was orphaned and not available in the EPEL5 repo
+
diff --git a/python-enchant.spec b/python-enchant.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index 50b282b..0000000
--- a/python-enchant.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-%{!?python_sitearch: %define python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}
-
-Name:           python-enchant
-Version:        1.1.5
-Release:        5%{?dist}
-Summary:        Python bindings for Enchant spellchecking library
-
-Group:          Development/Languages
-License:        LGPL
-URL:            http://pyenchant.sourceforge.net/
-Source0:        http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pyenchant/pyenchant-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-
-BuildRequires:  python-devel enchant-devel
-BuildRequires:  python-setuptools >= 0:0.6a9
-
-Provides:       PyEnchant
-
-%description
-PyEnchant is a spellchecking library for Python, based on the Enchant
-library by Dom Lachowicz.
-
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -n pyenchant-%{version}
-
-
-%build
-CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" %{__python} setup.py build
-
-
-%install
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT --single-version-externally-managed
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{python_sitearch}/*.egg-info
-
- 
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc LICENSE.txt README.txt
-%dir %{python_sitearch}/enchant
-%dir %{python_sitearch}/enchant/checker
-%dir %{python_sitearch}/enchant/tokenize
-%{python_sitearch}/enchant/*.py
-%{python_sitearch}/enchant/*.py[co]
-%{python_sitearch}/enchant/*/*.py
-%{python_sitearch}/enchant/*/*.py[co]
-%{python_sitearch}/enchant/_enchant.so
-
-
-%changelog
-* Thu Oct 05 2006 Christian Iseli <Christian.Iseli@licr.org> 1.1.5-5
- - rebuilt for unwind info generation, broken in gcc-4.1.1-21
-
-* Wed Sep 20 2006 José Matos <jamatos[AT]fc.up.pt> - 1.1.5-4
-- Rebuild for FC-6.
-- Unghost .pyo files.
-
-* Tue Feb 14 2006 Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@farsiweb.info> - 1.1.5-3
-- Rebuild for Fedora Extras 5
-
-* Tue Feb 07 2006 Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@farsiweb.info> - 1.1.5-2
-- Rebuild
-
-* Sat Feb 04 2006 Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@farsiweb.info> - 1.1.5-1
-- Update to 1.1.5
-
-* Wed Feb 01 2006 Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@farsiweb.info> - 1.1.3-3
-- Use %%{python_sitearch} instead of %%{python_sitelib} (for x86_64)
-
-* Wed Feb 01 2006 Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@farsiweb.info> - 1.1.3-2
-- Remove %%{enchant_dir} macro
-- Add %%dir for architecture-specific directory
-- Add "Provides:" for PyEnchant
-- Remove "Requires:" on enchant (Brian Pepple)
-
-* Mon Jan 09 2006 Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@farsiweb.info> - 1.1.3-1
-- Initial packaging
diff --git a/sources b/sources
deleted file mode 100644
index d550718..0000000
--- a/sources
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-d9a07392f1f0910635a221273ac9654d  pyenchant-1.1.5.tar.gz