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Richard Stallman wrote:

>     It is no more strange than the other configury-related stuff in there:
>     aclocal.m4, configure.in, configure, and Makefile.am.
[...]
> Let's keep them in CVS just in case we ever want them again, but
> make-dist should not put them in tarballs.

These would seem to be ideal subjects for a "cvs remove", which puts
them in an Attic/ subdirectory. They would not appear in normal CVS
checkouts, but could still be recovered if necessary.

This has already been done with INSTALL and MANIFEST.