diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
index ccce5da..1eda3ff 100644
--- a/dead.package
+++ b/dead.package
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Retired on 2014-07-06 in preparation to branch Fedora 21 because it depended on a retired package
+2017-02-17: Retired orphaned package, because it was orphaned for
+more than six weeks.
+