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+RRDtool on Debian
+=================
+
+Documentation:
+--------------
+
+The RRDtool documentation is available as manual pages (see rrdtool(1) as a
+starting point) or HTML pages located in /usr/share/doc/rrdtool/html/. The
+text and POD documentation which is usually installed by the upstream source
+package has been left out of the Debian packages as it does not provide any
+further benefits over the other documentation.
+