diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ /dev/null
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-/results_*
-/*.src.rpm
-
-/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.3.0.tar.gz
-/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.0.tar.gz
-/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.1.tar.gz
-/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.2.tar.gz
-/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.3.tar.gz
-/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.4.tar.gz
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
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+++ b/dead.package
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+remove package (temporarily) due to unresolved issues with GNOME 43
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-SHA512 (wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.4.tar.gz) = 939447d55884a921c99fa42504be030afc6ade526f12f46cfcbb14e36d16cfc4dbe7f50baf92a72fcf2568d1b3cd20f8dbea3b348b9a031dfdd1d28b6115a691
diff --git a/wingpanel-applications-menu.rpmlintrc b/wingpanel-applications-menu.rpmlintrc
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-# false positives
-addFilter("E: invalid-lc-messages-dir /usr/share/locale/bh*")
-addFilter("E: invalid-lc-messages-dir /usr/share/locale/mo*")
diff --git a/wingpanel-applications-menu.spec b/wingpanel-applications-menu.spec
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-%global __provides_exclude_from ^%{_libdir}/wingpanel/.*\\.so$
-
-%global srcname applications-menu
-%global appname io.elementary.desktop.wingpanel.applications-menu
-
-Name:           wingpanel-applications-menu
-Summary:        Lightweight and stylish app launcher
-Version:        2.4.4
-Release:        1%{?dist}
-License:        GPLv3+
-
-URL:            https://github.com/elementary/%{srcname}
-Source0:        %{url}/archive/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-
-BuildRequires:  cmake
-BuildRequires:  gcc
-BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
-BuildRequires:  gettext
-BuildRequires:  vala >= 0.32.1
-
-BuildRequires:  appstream-vala
-
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(appstream) >= 0.10.0
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gee-0.8)
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(glib-2.0)
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(granite) >= 0.5
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gtk+-3.0) >= 3.12.0
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(json-glib-1.0)
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libgnome-menu-3.0)
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libsoup-2.4)
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(plank) >= 0.10.9
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(switchboard-2.0)
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(unity) >= 4.0.0
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(wingpanel-2.0) >= 2.1.0
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(zeitgeist-2.0)
-
-Requires:       redhat-menus
-
-Requires:       wingpanel%{?_isa}
-Supplements:    wingpanel%{?_isa}
-
-Provides:       slingshot-launcher = %{version}-%{release}
-Obsoletes:      slingshot-launcher < 2.2.0-8
-
-
-%description
-The lightweight and stylish app launcher from elementary.
-
-
-%prep
-%autosetup -n %{srcname}-%{version} -p1
-
-
-%build
-mkdir build && pushd build
-%cmake ..
-%make_build
-popd
-
-
-%install
-pushd build
-%make_install
-popd
-
-%find_lang slingshot
-
-
-%files -f slingshot.lang
-%doc README.md
-%license COPYING
-
-%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/xdg/menus/pantheon-applications.menu
-
-%{_libdir}/wingpanel/libslingshot.so
-
-%{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas/%{appname}.gschema.xml
-
-
-%changelog
-* Fri Aug 23 2019 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.4.4-1
-- Update to version 2.4.4.
-
-* Fri May 17 2019 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.4.3-1
-- Update to version 2.4.3.
-
-* Tue Jan 22 2019 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.4.2-1
-- Update to version 2.4.2.
-
-* Sat Dec 08 2018 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.4.1-1
-- Update to version 2.4.1.
-- Drop explicit dependency on zeitgeist.
-
-* Tue Sep 18 2018 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.4.0-1
-- Update to version 2.4.0.
-
-* Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.3.0-2
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Sun Jul 08 2018 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.3.0-1
-- Initial package renamed from slingshot-launcher.
-