I'm trying to retire gpsk31, The package is obsoleted by fldigi, the upstream links are also dead and the project appears abandoned. "fedpkg retire" yields errors. (below)

I retired the package in pkgdb after attempts to use fedpkg failed.

master]$ fedpkg retire
fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount parent )
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
Could not retire package: Command '['git', 'rm', '-rf', '.']' returned non-zero exit status 128

master]$ fedpkg commit -p -m "package retired. Obsoleted by Fldigi, upstream project appears abandoned."
fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount parent )
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
Could not commit: Command '['git', 'commit', '-m', 'package retired. Obsoleted by Fldigi, upstream project appears abandoned.', '-a']' returned non-zero exit status 128