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+<assembly>
+	<id>dist</id>
+	<formats>
+		<format>tar.gz</format>
+	</formats>
+	<includeBaseDirectory>true</includeBaseDirectory>
+	<dependencySets>
+		<dependencySet>
+			<useProjectArtifact>true</useProjectArtifact>
+			<outputDirectory>/lib</outputDirectory>
+		</dependencySet>
+	</dependencySets>
+	<fileSets>
+		<fileSet>
+			<directory>.</directory>
+			<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
+			<includes>
+				<include>../dist/README.txt</include>
+				<include>../dist/LICENSE.txt</include>
+				<include>../dist/HOWTO-Launch-Heritrix.txt</include>
+			</includes>
+		</fileSet>
+		<fileSet>
+			<directory>../dist/src/main/licenses</directory>
+			<outputDirectory>/lib</outputDirectory>
+		</fileSet>
+		<fileSet>
+			<directory>../dist/src/main/bin</directory>
+			<outputDirectory>/bin</outputDirectory>
+			<fileMode>0755</fileMode>
+		</fileSet>
+		<fileSet>
+			<directory>../dist/src/main/extras</directory>
+			<outputDirectory>/extras</outputDirectory>
+		</fileSet>
+		<fileSet>
+			<directory>../dist/src/main/conf</directory>
+			<outputDirectory>/conf</outputDirectory>
+		</fileSet>
+		<fileSet>
+			<directory>../dist/src/main/conf/jobs</directory>
+			<outputDirectory>/jobs</outputDirectory>
+		</fileSet>
+	</fileSets>
+</assembly>