Adam Jackson <a...@redhat.com> wrote:

>> I searched a bit in the wiki, and my sense is that at some
>> point in the past packages were maintained in a CVS reposi-
>> tory with Makefiles and that those have been replaced by Git
>> repositories and fedpkg.

>> Is that correct?  Can such a Makefile then be deleted or
>> does it serve any other purpose?

> That is correct. Most packages had a nearly identical copy of this
> Makefile, but a few (most notably the kernel) had extended it with
> other maintainer convenience commands. I suspect what happened here is
> that when we moved to git we preserved any Makefile that didn't match
> the standard one.

> This particular one is certainly not doing anything useful anymore,
> feel free to nuke it.

Thanks for the explanation.

Tim
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