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+The debian-conserver-xcat.patch.gz is to be patched on to the debian source
+package retrieved on a debian system via:
+$ apt-get source conserver
+or from the appropriate source package at http://packages.debian.org/
+and built with:
+$ dpkg-buildpackage
+
+The debian patch includes the SSL patches already.
diff --git a/conserver/debian-conserver-xcat.patch.gz b/conserver/debian-conserver-xcat.patch.gz
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