On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Removing them from the tarballs would take away between 30-35% of the
> compressed file size and thus produce much smaller release packages.

I got no objections but a few positive responses (over twitter). They're gone
as of commit 358fd3282.

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