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+Varnish Cache
+=============
+
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+This is Varnish Cache, the high-performance HTTP accelerator.
+
+Documentation and additional information about Varnish is available
+on https://www.varnish-cache.org/
+
+Technical questions about Varnish and this release should be addressed
+to <[email protected]>.
+
+Please see CONTRIBUTING for how to contribute patches and report bugs.
+
+Questions about commercial support and services related to Varnish
+should be addressed to <[email protected]>.
+
+More platforms are tested via [vtest](https://varnish-cache.org/vtest/).
+
+## Packaging
+
+Varnish Cache packaging files are kept outside of the main distribution.
+
+The main reason for this is to decouple the development work from the packaging work.
+
+We want to be able to tag a release and do a tarball release without having
+to wait for the packagers to finish their work/changes.
+
+### Official packages
+
+The official Debian and Redhat packages are built by the Varnish
+Cache team and made available on https://packagecloud.io/varnishcache/.
+
+Packaging files and scripts for Debian and Redhat:
+
+    https://github.com/varnishcache/pkg-varnish-cache
+
+### Third-party packages
+
+Varnish Cache is built and packaged in many different operating
+systems and distributions. Please see https://varnish-cache.org/
+for more information.