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-synce-vdccm-0.9.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
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+Package is retired and obsoleted by synce-connector
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-996236320a6b4c9410050c4dc6e53164  synce-vdccm-0.9.3.tar.gz
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-Name:           vdccm
-Version:        0.9.3
-Release:        1%{?dist}
-Summary:        Serial connection daemon for Pocket PC devices
-
-Group:          Applications/Communications
-License:        MIT
-URL:            http://www.synce.org
-Source0:        http://download.sf.net/synce/synce-vdccm-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-
-BuildRequires:  libsynce-devel
-BuildRequires:  libtool
-
-Requires:       synce-serial
-
-%description
-Vdccm is a daemon running as the user on the desktop machine, which
-the Pocket PC connects to.
-This vdccm is a replacement of the original dccm and the vdccm comming
-with SynCE-KDE.
-
-%package devel
-Summary: Development libraries and header files for vdccm
-Group: Development/Libraries
-Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
-
-%description devel
-This package contains the header files and link libraries for vdccm
-
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-sed -i -e "/chown root/d" src/Makefile.in
-
-%build
-%configure --disable-static
-make LIBTOOL=%{_bindir}/libtool %{?_smp_mflags}
-
-
-%install
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*.{la,a}
-
-
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-
-%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
-
-%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
-
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README TODO
-%attr(4755,root,root) %{_bindir}/vdccm
-%{_bindir}/proxyclient
-%{_bindir}/triggerconnection
-%{_libdir}/libdescriptor.so.*
-
-%files devel
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%{_libdir}/lib*.so
-
-
-%changelog
-* Sat Mar 03 2007 Aurelien Bompard <abompard@fedoraproject.org> 0.9.3-1
-- split off the synce package