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-/brother-0.1.17.tar.gz
-/brother-0.1.20.tar.gz
-/brother-0.2.1.tar.gz
-/brother-0.2.2.tar.gz
-/brother-1.0.2.tar.gz
-/brother-1.1.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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-# python-brother
-
-The python-brother package
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
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+Retired: Fails to install
+
+See https://pagure.io/releng/issue/10970
diff --git a/python-brother.spec b/python-brother.spec
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-%global pypi_name brother
-
-Name:           python-%{pypi_name}
-Version:        1.1.0
-Release:        4%{?dist}
-Summary:        Python wrapper for getting data from Brother printers
-
-License:        ASL 2.0
-URL:            https://github.com/bieniu/brother
-Source0:        %{url}/archive/%{version}/%{pypi_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildArch:      noarch
-
-%description
-Python wrapper for getting data from Brother laser and inkjet printers
-via SNMP.
-
-%package -n     python3-%{pypi_name}
-Summary:        %{summary}
-
-BuildRequires:  python3-devel
-BuildRequires:  python3dist(setuptools)
-BuildRequires:  python3dist(pytest)
-BuildRequires:  python3dist(pytest-runner)
-BuildRequires:  python3dist(pysnmp)
-BuildRequires:  python3dist(pytest-cov)
-BuildRequires:  python3dist(pytest-asyncio)
-BuildRequires:  python3dist(pytest-error-for-skips)
-%{?python_provide:%python_provide python3-%{pypi_name}}
-
-%description -n python3-%{pypi_name}
-Python wrapper for getting data from Brother laser and inkjet printers
-via SNMP.
-
-%prep
-%autosetup -n %{pypi_name}-%{version}
-rm -rf %{pypi_name}.egg-info
-
-%build
-%py3_build
-
-%install
-%py3_install
-
-%check
-%pytest -v tests
-
-%files -n python3-%{pypi_name}
-%doc README.md
-%license LICENSE
-%{python3_sitelib}/%{pypi_name}/
-%{python3_sitelib}/%{pypi_name}-%{version}-py%{python3_version}.egg-info/
-
-%changelog
-* Fri Jul 22 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.0-4
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Mon Jun 13 2022 Python Maint <python-maint@redhat.com> - 1.1.0-3
-- Rebuilt for Python 3.11
-
-* Fri Jan 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.0-2
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Wed Oct 13 2021 Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch> - 1.1.0-1
-- Update to latest upstream release 1.1.0 (closes rhbz#2012567)
-
-* Wed Aug 25 2021 Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch> - 1.0.2-1
-- Update to latest upstream release 1.0.2 (rhbz#1938602)
-
-* Fri Jul 23 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.2-3
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Fri Jun 04 2021 Python Maint <python-maint@redhat.com> - 0.2.2-2
-- Rebuilt for Python 3.10
-
-* Tue Mar 16 2021 Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch> - 0.2.2-1
-- Update to latest upstream release 0.2.2
-
-* Fri Feb 12 2021 Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch> - 0.2.1-1
-- Update to latest upstream release 0.2.1 (#1923751)
-
-* Wed Jan 27 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.20-3
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Fri Dec 04 2020 Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch> - 0.1.20-2
-- Enable tests
-
-* Thu Nov 26 2020 Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch> - 0.1.20-1
-- Disable tests due to missing dep
-- Update to latest upstream release 0.1.20 (#1901839)
-
-* Tue Sep 08 2020 Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch> - 0.1.17-1
-- Upstream adjusted BRs (rhbz#1875834)
-- LICENSE file is now available 
-
-* Thu Sep 03 2020 Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch> - 0.1.15-1
-- Initial package for Fedora
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-SHA512 (brother-1.1.0.tar.gz) = 97cc65104a292b1a0e61669c6cad994c4fc4581489ea9118198125c65d9d7daad5267e120c5aaf4b7a1ca7ecd092d915318462b951e072af208e922e4d5e0cbf