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Re: INSTALL.gz with generic installation instructions



On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:32:17 +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
<gaia@iki.fi> wrote:
>On 20010106T135555+0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Is it allowed or desired to exclude documentation from binary packages
>> that are in the source?
>
>Of course, if done with taste.  The INSTALL file almost never should be
>installed (it would not do any good for it to be installed, since the user
>does the install in a completely different way, ie. using dpkg or apt).
>
>See Policy manual section 6.3, last sentence.

That's what I have been looking for. Thanks.

Greetings
Marc

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