What's the issue that you are encountering?

I don't recall the error, but was not retired from PDC.

I tried restoring files and running fedpkg retire again but it was not working.

See https://pagure.io/releng/issue/12192

@mikelo2
I am looking at the package in dist-git [0]. By the looks of it it appears that you attempted to retire the package several months ago so I understand it may be difficult to remember, but could you please try to describe the steps that you did?

1) Run the fedpkg retire utility.
2) Remove the dead.package file [1] as an attempted workaround.

Was there anything else? Thank you kindly!

[0] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/golang-github-src-d-gcfg
[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/golang-github-src-d-gcfg/c/1710fa0d78e4532508bb83ca9f24c4b3c025c734?branch=rawhide

3) try with fedpkg retire again:

$ fedpkg retire "trying with retire again"
fatal: pathspec '.' did not match any files
Could not execute retire: Failed to execute command.

There seems to be some issue in the fedpkg codebase I created an issue for it

Likely because it expects there to be some files to remove. ;) But yeah, it should check...

So I reverted the commit that removed dead.package (i.e. I want to re-add the file) but I ran into an issue when trying to push the revert commit.

On compose-branched01.iad2.fedoraproject.org:
$ GIT_SSH=/usr/local/bin/relengpush fedpkg --user releng push (tried with --no-verify option as well, same result)
Could not execute push: This package or module is retired. The action has stopped.

Does anyone happen know why this is happening and how I could work around it? Thank you.
cc: @jnsamyak @humaton @kevin

$ pwd
/home/fedora/patrikp/retire/golang-github-src-d-gcfg

So, this is coming from rpkg (which fedpkg depends on).

Can you try just using 'git push' directly?

I successfully managed to push the revert commit and manually blocked the F41 tag in Koji.

When I try to run:
$ fedpkg retire "Not required after migration to golang-github-git-5"

I get:
dead.package found, package or module is already retired. Will not remove files from git or overwrite existing dead.package file.

The package is still not orphaned in dist-git:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/golang-github-src-d-gcfg

What would be the proper next steps in order to retire this? Manually orphan it in dist-git? Anything else?

Yeah, orphan and then check/confirm it shows up in https://src.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/retired_in_rawhide.json after the next run of that.

The package is now orphaned in dist-git.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/golang-github-src-d-gcfg

I'll leave this open for a short while, until it appears in the list of retired pkgs.

It's there. :thumbsup:

Thanks for fixing this complicated ticket!