diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index e505e30..0000000
--- a/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-xmmsctrl-1.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e8a26b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dead.package
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Retired due to lack of maintainer interest
diff --git a/sources b/sources
deleted file mode 100644
index 346b76c..0000000
--- a/sources
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0774f3e61cfc89c1fd3f0526c48b35db  xmmsctrl-1.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/xmmsctrl-no-strip.patch b/xmmsctrl-no-strip.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 046f422..0000000
--- a/xmmsctrl-no-strip.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-diff -rupN old/xmmsctrl-1.8/Makefile new/xmmsctrl-1.8/Makefile
---- old/xmmsctrl-1.8/Makefile	2004-04-02 08:00:12.000000000 -0500
-+++ new/xmmsctrl-1.8/Makefile	2008-09-23 00:48:36.000000000 -0400
-@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ all : $(TARGET) HELP
- 
- $(TARGET) : xmmsctrl.c removefile.c
- 	$(CC) -o $(TARGET) xmmsctrl.c removefile.c $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)
--	strip xmmsctrl
- 
- HELP : xmmsctrl
- 	./xmmsctrl > HELP || true
diff --git a/xmmsctrl.spec b/xmmsctrl.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index e8c5c75..0000000
--- a/xmmsctrl.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-Summary: Command line control utility for xmms
-Name: xmmsctrl
-Version: 1.8
-Release: 6%{?dist}
-URL: http://www.docs.uu.se/~adavid
-Source0: http://user.it.uu.se/~adavid/utils/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch0: xmmsctrl-no-strip.patch
-License: GPLv2
-Group: Applications/Multimedia
-BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-Requires: xmms
-BuildRequires: xmms-devel
-
-%description
-xmmsctrl is a small utility to control xmms from the command line. Its
-goal is to be used coupled with sh to test xmms state and perform an
-appropriate action, e.g. if playing then pause else play. The interest
-of this is to bind keys in a window manager to have control over xmms
-with keys that do play/next/pause, prev, control sound...
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-%patch0 -p2 -b .nostrip
-chmod 0644 samples/*
-
-%build
-make %{?_smp_mflags} WARN="${RPM_OPT_FLAGS}"
-
-%install
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/%{_bindir}
-install -m 755  %{name} ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/%{_bindir}
-
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc Changelog README HELP samples
-%{_bindir}/xmmsctrl
-
-%changelog
-* Mon Jul 27 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.8-6
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.8-5
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Sat Sep 28 2008 Orcan Ogetbil <orcanbahri[AT]yahoo[DOT]com> - 1.8-4
-- Changed the type of RPM_OPT_FLAGS from CFLAGS to WARN
-
-* Sat Sep 27 2008 Orcan Ogetbil <orcanbahri[AT]yahoo[DOT]com> - 1.8-3
-- Added DistTag
-- Removed ExclusiveArch
-- Changed 0444 file permissions to 0644
-- Changed %%defattr to (-,root,root,-)
-- Honored Fedora specific compilation flags
-- Support parallel make
-
-* Mon Sep 22 2008 Orcan Ogetbil <orcanbahri[AT]yahoo[DOT]com> - 1.8-2
-- Repack for Fedora
-- Don't strip the binary patch
-
-* Mon Feb 18 2002 Jan IVEN <jan.iven@cern.ch> - 1.8-1
-- Initial build.
-
-