diff --git a/news/trunk/robots.txt b/news/trunk/robots.txt
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+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /administrator/
+Disallow: /cache/
+Disallow: /components/
+Disallow: /images/
+Disallow: /includes/
+Disallow: /installation/
+Disallow: /language/
+Disallow: /libraries/
+Disallow: /media/
+Disallow: /modules/
+Disallow: /plugins/
+Disallow: /templates/
+Disallow: /tmp/
+Disallow: /xmlrpc/