diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index e471991..0000000
--- a/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-typepad-motion-1.1.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
index 7ceac32..db1ea74 100644
--- a/dead.package
+++ b/dead.package
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-This package was retired on 2012-08-06 due to no active maintainers for the package.
+2014-12-19: Retired because of broken deps
+