diff --git a/debian/boost-build.docs b/debian/boost-build.docs
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-boost_build_v2.html
-index_v2.html
-boost.png
-doc
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diff --git a/debian/boost-build.examples b/debian/boost-build.examples
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-example/*
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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-boost-build (2.0.m10-1) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * Initial Release.
-
- -- Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>  Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:08:00 +0400
-
diff --git a/debian/conffiles b/debian/conffiles
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-/etc/site-config.jam
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
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-Source: boost-build
-Section: devel
-Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0), docbook-to-man, bison
-Standards-Version: 3.5.2
-
-Package: boost-build
-Architecture: all
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, bjam (>> 3.1.9-1)
-Description: Build system
- Boost.Build is a build system with a simple and high-level language.   
- It supports build variants, and several different compilers and tools. 
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
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diff --git a/debian/excludes b/debian/excludes
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-boost.css
-boost_build_v2.html
-index_v2.html
-boost.png
-generators_prototype.py
-hacking.txt
-release_procedure.txt
-site-config.jam
-roll.sh
-debian
-doc
-example
-test
-CVS
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diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
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-#!/usr/bin/make -f
-# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
-# This file is public domain software, originally written by Joey Hess. 
-
-# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
-#export DH_VERBOSE=1
-
-build:
-clean:
-binary-arch: 
-
-binary-indep: 
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-
-	dh_clean -k
-	dh_installdirs usr/share/boost-build etc
-
-	# Add here commands to install the package into debian/<packagename>
-	(tar --exclude-from debian/excludes -cpf - * ) | (cd `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/share/boost-build && tar xpf - )
-	chmod a-x -R `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/share/boost-build
-
-	dh_installchangelogs
-	dh_installdocs -XCVS
-	mv `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/boost-build/index_v2.html `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/boost-build/index.html 
-
-	(tar --exclude make --exclude CVS -cpf - example/* ) | ( cd `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/boost-build && tar xpf - )
-
-	sed 's/#  using gcc ;/using gcc ;/' user-config.jam > `pwd`/debian/tmp/etc/site-config.jam
-
-#	dh_install
-#	dh_installmenu
-#	dh_installdebconf	
-#	dh_installlogrotate
-#	dh_installemacsen
-#	dh_installcatalogs
-#	dh_installpam
-#	dh_installmime
-#	dh_installinit
-#	dh_installcron
-#	dh_installinfo
-#	dh_undocumented
-	dh_installman
-	dh_link
-	dh_compress
-	dh_fixperms
-#	dh_perl
-#	dh_python
-#	dh_makeshlibs
-	dh_installdeb
-	dh_gencontrol
-	dh_md5sums
-	dh_builddeb
-
-binary: binary-indep binary-arch
-.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install