--- /dev/null
+<!-- common entities file
+
+ Bits of text which are language independent. In some cases it
+ makes sense to break these out because repetitively maintaining
+ them in different translations of the Developer's Reference is
+ wasteful. In other cases, the data is rather volatile and
+ breaking it out make maintenance easier.
+ -->
+
+<!-- volatile information -->
+
+<!entity number-of-pkgs "3300">
+<!entity number-of-maintainers "500">
+
+<!-- standard information -->
+<!entity fsf-addr "Free Software Foundation,
+ Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA">
+
+<!--
+ URLs, Debian
+ -->
+<!entity www-debian-org "www.debian.org">
+<!entity ftp-debian-org "ftp.debian.org">
+<!entity www-host "&www-debian-org;">
+<!entity lists-host "lists.debian.org">
+<!entity archive-host "archive.debian.org">
+
+<!entity url-debian-policy "http://&www-debian-org;/doc/debian-policy/">
+<!entity url-pkg-manual "http://&www-debian-org;/doc/packaging-manuals/packaging.html/">
+<!entity url-social-contract "http://&www-debian-org;/social_contract">
+<!entity url-dfsg "&url-social-contract;#guidelines">
+<!entity url-debian-lists-subscribe "http://&www-debian-org;/MailingLists/subscribe">
+<!entity url-debian-lists "ftp://&ftp-debian-org;/debian/doc/mailing-lists.txt">
+<!entity url-debian-list-archives "http://&www-debian-org;/Lists-Archives/">
+<!entity url-debian-contacts "http://&www-debian-org;/devel/maintainer_contacts">
+<!entity url-bts "http://&www-debian-org;/Bugs/">
+<!entity url-debian-mirrors "http://&www-debian-org;/distrib/ftplist">
+<!entity url-debian-mirroring "http://&www-debian-org;/mirror/">
+
+<!--
+ URLs, non-debbin
+ -->
+<!entity url-gnu-manifesto "http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html">
+
+
+<!--
+ misc, non-debbin
+ -->
+<!entity pgp-keyserv "<tt>pgp5.ai.mit.edu</tt>">
+
+
+
+<!entity sample-dist-dirtree "<example>
+main/
+main/binary-all/
+main/binary-all/admin/
+main/binary-all/base/
+main/binary-all/comm/
+main/binary-all/devel/
+ ...
+main/binary-i386/
+main/binary-i386/admin/
+main/binary-i386/base/
+ ...
+main/binary-m68k
+main/binary-m68k/admin/
+main/binary-m68k/base/
+ ...
+main/source/
+main/source/admin/
+main/source/base/
+ ...
+main/disks-i386/
+main/disks-m68k/
+ ...
+
+contrib/
+contrib/binary-all/
+contrib/binary-i386/
+contrib/binary-m68k/
+ ...
+contrib/source/
+
+non-free/
+non-free/binary-all/
+non-free/binary-i386/
+non-free/binary-m68k/
+ ...
+non-free/source/
+</example>">
+