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+# This is only a mirror.
+
+Note that this repository is only a very outdated mirror of the man-pages repo at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/ 
+
+Any changes will have to be submitted there
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+## Package description
+
 This package contains Linux man pages for sections 1 through 8.  Some
 more information is given in the 'man-pages-x.y.Announce' file.