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Re: INSTALL.gz with generic installation instructions



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.

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