diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
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index 0cd48cd..0000000
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-News_2.4.1.zip
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
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index 69829fb..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Makefile for source rpm: zikula-module-News
-# $Id$
-NAME := zikula-module-News
-SPECFILE = $(firstword $(wildcard *.spec))
-
-define find-makefile-common
-for d in common ../common ../../common ; do if [ -f $$d/Makefile.common ] ; then if [ -f $$d/CVS/Root -a -w $$/Makefile.common ] ; then cd $$d ; cvs -Q update ; fi ; echo "$$d/Makefile.common" ; break ; fi ; done
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON := $(shell $(find-makefile-common))
-
-ifeq ($(MAKEFILE_COMMON),)
-# attept a checkout
-define checkout-makefile-common
-test -f CVS/Root && { cvs -Q -d $$(cat CVS/Root) checkout common && echo "common/Makefile.common" ; } || { echo "ERROR: I can't figure out how to checkout the 'common' module." ; exit -1 ; } >&2
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON := $(shell $(checkout-makefile-common))
-endif
-
-include $(MAKEFILE_COMMON)
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
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index 0000000..1eda3ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dead.package
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+2017-02-17: Retired orphaned package, because it was orphaned for
+more than six weeks.
+
diff --git a/import.log b/import.log
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index 5464f24..0000000
--- a/import.log
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-zikula-module-News-2_4_1-2_fc11:HEAD:zikula-module-News-2.4.1-2.fc11.src.rpm:1248213448
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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--- a/sources
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-cac873b9b459d64b9aaceeeea9a8a136  News_2.4.1.zip
diff --git a/zikula-module-News.spec b/zikula-module-News.spec
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index 093f425..0000000
--- a/zikula-module-News.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-%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:        3%{?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
-* 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