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-/django-authenticator-0.1.4.tar.gz
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
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+2014-06-04 - This package was already retired in pkgdb/blocked in koji, but no dead.package file existed. The original retirement reason is unclear.
diff --git a/django-authenticator.spec b/django-authenticator.spec
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-%if ! (0%{?fedora} > 12 || 0%{?rhel} > 5)
-%{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
-%endif
-
-Name:           django-authenticator
-Version:        0.1.4
-Release:        3%{?dist}
-Summary:        Authentication client for django
-
-License:        GPLv3
-URL:            http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-authenticator/0.1.4
-Source0:        http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-
-BuildArch:      noarch
-BuildRequires:  python-devel
-BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
-Requires:       Django
-Requires:       django-registration
-Requires:       python-import-utils
-Requires:       Django-south
-Requires:       python-oauth2
-Requires:       python-openid
-Requires:       python-wordpress-xmlrpc
-
-%description
-this is a based on a forked version of django-authopenid module 
-developed for the Askbot forum project.
-
-This module is experimental
-
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-
-
-%build
-%{__python} setup.py build
-
-
-%install
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root %{buildroot}
-# remove forgotten script
-%{__rm} %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/startforum
-
-%files
-%defattr (-,root,root,-)
-%doc PKG-INFO
-%{python_sitelib}/django_authenticator
-%{python_sitelib}/django_authenticator-%{version}*
-
-
-
-
-%changelog
-* Fri Jan 13 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.4-3
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Sep 29 2011 Matthias Runge <mrunge@matthias-runge.de> - 0.1.4-2
-- fix requires
-
-* Tue Sep 20 2011 Matthias Runge <mrunge@matthias-runge.de> - 0.1.4-1 
-- first packaged version for fedora
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-3e70ce215f14a2937683050c93f849c0  django-authenticator-0.1.4.tar.gz