Using Charm at cutover to handle deleted objects

Hello experts,
System landscape contains of dual landscap meaning one project ladnscape and one maintenance landscape.
Project: D01>T01>Q01 ( no charm )
Maint: DEV>QAS>PRD ( charm is used )
At project Go Live cutover is done från Project line Q01 to Maint DEV.
All transports imported in Q01 is added manually to import queue of Maint DEV and imported.
After that 1 WB request and 1 Cust. request is created via charm and all objects from the
cutover transports imported are added to those chamr transports. Then charm handles the
transport process through the maint landscape up to production.
Problem
=======
If cutover transports contains deletion of objects, the transports are imported to DEV maint, object is deleted.
When including all objects from cutover transports into the two charm transports it will then ofcourse fail during
releae of the transports on the deleted objects as they no longer exist in DEV maint. This is of course not a specific
charm problem but a TMS problem. Or not even a problem it is as it should be.
Question
========
Is there any way of handling this scenario, can charm in any way handle this ?
Thanks,

I checked the link you provided and that descibes as you say a dual landscape but i don't think it will solve this problem.
As i understand you setup the retrofit process one-way and that would be Maint DEV --> Project DEV.
That is all fine keeping all changes done in maintenance landscape in synk with project landscape.
But the cutover process is manual, as also the drawing states, meaning adding project landscape transports
to Maint DEV system import queue and import them. But if a transport contains objects with the delete flag it will be
deleted in the Maint DEV system. All fine that far. But when you then inlcude all cutover transports objects into a charm transport it will not check if object still exist in Maint DEV system ( wich it does not anymore ), it will include evertyhing that is part of the cutover transports. Meaning you include objects with delete flag on it. When you release this now in Maint DEV system what it does is to check if object exist in TADIR, it does not. You can fool this release process by manually create an entry in TADIR, release the transport, then delete the entry in TADIR. But if you have cutover transports with many deletions, then this is not the way to go.
So please explain how the retrofit procedure would help in the scenarion at cutover and delete flag.
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