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+The package-config directory contains the configuration files
+for building release packages for the different operationg
+systems:
+
+* osx: binary packages for Mac OSX
+* fedora: rpm packages for Fedora (Linux)
+* ubuntu: deb packages for Ubuntu and (Linux)
+
+Please visit the correspondig operating systems homepage
+for instructions on how to build a binary package of task
+out of the released source tarball with these configuration
+files.
+
+For Fedora rpm packages you find instructions at
+http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CreatingPackageHowTo
+
+For Ubuntu deb packages you find instructions at
+https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete
+
+You might also ask in the forums of taskwarrior.org if you
+have further questions.
+
+This file and the corresponding package build configuration files
+are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+Please see the file COPYING in the main directory.