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-News_2.4.1.zip
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+Retired on 2014-07-06 in preparation to branch Fedora 21 because it depended on a retired package
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-cac873b9b459d64b9aaceeeea9a8a136  News_2.4.1.zip
diff --git a/zikula-module-News.spec b/zikula-module-News.spec
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-%global zikula_base         %{_datadir}/zikula
-%global zikula_moddir       %{zikula_base}/modules
-%global zikula_modname      News
-
-Name:           zikula-module-%{zikula_modname}
-Version:        2.4.1
-Release:        7%{?dist}
-Summary:        Manages news articles on your Zikula site
-
-Group:          Applications/Publishing
-License:        GPL+
-URL:            http://code.zikula.org/news
-# http://code.zikula.org/news/changeset/167/tags/News-2.4.1?old_path=%2F&format=zip
-Source0:        %{zikula_modname}_%{version}.zip
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-BuildArch:      noarch
-BuildRequires:  dos2unix
-Requires:       zikula
-
-%description
-News module to manage news articles on your site. Provides
-multi-categorization, scheduled publishing, the basic management
-features and includes some highly customizable blocks and plugins for
-the Content module.
-
-%prep
-%setup -qn tags/%{zikula_modname}-%{version}
-# Remove empty index.html and others
-find -size 0 | xargs rm -f
-dos2unix modules/News/pndocs/NewsTODO.txt
-
-
-%build
-
-
-%install
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-%{__mkdir} -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{zikula_moddir}/%{zikula_modname} 
-pushd modules/%{zikula_modname}
-cp -pr . $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{zikula_moddir}/%{zikula_modname}
-popd
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{zikula_moddir}/%{zikula_modname}/pndocs
-
-
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc modules/News/pndocs/NewsTODO.txt modules/News/pndocs/tour_page1.htm
-%{zikula_moddir}/%{zikula_modname}
-
-
-%changelog
-* Fri Feb 15 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.4.1-7
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Sun Jul 22 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.4.1-6
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.4.1-5
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Tue Feb 08 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.4.1-4
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Mon Jul 27 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.4.1-3
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Jul 16 2009 Paul W. Frields <stickster@gmail.com> - 2.4.1-2
-- Fix packaging errors
-
-* Sun Jun 14 2009 Fedora Docs Team <docs@fedoraproject.org> - 2.4.1-1
-- Initial RPM release