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+About xcb-proto
+===============
+
+xcb-proto provides the XML-XCB protocol descriptions that libxcb uses to
+generate the majority of its code and API. We provide them separately
+from libxcb to allow reuse by other projects, such as additional
+language bindings, protocol dissectors, or documentation generators.
+
+This separation between the XCB transport layer and the
+automatically-generated protocol layer also makes it far easier to write
+new extensions. With the Xlib infrastructure, client-side support for
+new extensions requires significant duplication of effort. With XCB and
+the XML-XCB protocol descriptions, client-side support for a new
+extension requires only an XML description of the extension, and not a
+single line of code.
+
+Please report any issues you find to the freedesktop.org bug tracker,
+at:
+
+	<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=XCB>
+
+Discussion about XCB occurs on the XCB mailing list:
+
+        <mailto:xcb at lists.freedesktop.org>
+        <http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb>
+
+You can obtain the latest development versions of XCB using GIT.
+For anonymous checkouts, use:
+
+        git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xcb/proto
+
+For developers, use:
+
+        git clone git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/xcb/proto