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12.6 Examples
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Any examples (configurations, source files, whatever), should be
installed in a directory ‘/usr/share/doc/package/examples’.  These files
should not be referenced by any program: they’re there for the benefit
of the system administrator and users as documentation only.
Architecture-specific example files should be installed in a directory
‘/usr/lib/package/examples’ with symbolic links to them from
‘/usr/share/doc/package/examples’, or the latter directory itself may be
a symbolic link to the former.

If the purpose of a package is to provide examples, then the example
files may be installed into ‘/usr/share/doc/package’.