diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 457692ed..5c39a7d2 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ include po/*.po po/*.pot po/Makefile
 recursive-include share *.mo
 exclude _linkchecker_configdata.py
 include doc/*.txt doc/*.nav doc/*.html doc/*.py doc/*.png doc/*.jpg
-include doc/*.css
+include doc/*.css doc/*.example
 include doc/en/*.1
 include doc/de/*.1
 include doc/fr/*.1
diff --git a/debian/linkchecker.examples b/debian/linkchecker.examples
index 1669b157..454aed44 100644
--- a/debian/linkchecker.examples
+++ b/debian/linkchecker.examples
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 config/linkcheck-cron.sh
-doc/robots.txt
+doc/robots.txt.example
diff --git a/doc/robots.txt b/doc/robots.txt.example
similarity index 100%
rename from doc/robots.txt
rename to doc/robots.txt.example