diff --git a/package.xml b/package.xml
index e65ab73b54abcfd702aeaa87ea669a0a74694833..bb4dcc2037a50c818c5fe1a22fa60e794c08f44c 100644
--- a/package.xml
+++ b/package.xml
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
  <contents>
   <dir baseinstalldir="/" name="/">
     <file baseinstalldir="/" name="config.m4" role="src" />
+    <file baseinstalldir="/" name="src/php/README.md" role="src" />
     <file baseinstalldir="/" name="src/php/ext/grpc/CREDITS" role="src" />
     <file baseinstalldir="/" name="src/php/ext/grpc/LICENSE" role="src" />
-    <file baseinstalldir="/" name="src/php/ext/grpc/README.md" role="src" />
     <file baseinstalldir="/" name="src/php/ext/grpc/byte_buffer.c" role="src" />
     <file baseinstalldir="/" name="src/php/ext/grpc/call.c" role="src" />
     <file baseinstalldir="/" name="src/php/ext/grpc/call_credentials.c" role="src" />
diff --git a/src/php/ext/grpc/README.md b/src/php/ext/grpc/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e1cb2002f5c96e1fbb57c8189f06205acc3a315..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/php/ext/grpc/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-gRPC PHP Extension
-==================
-
-# Requirements
-
- * PHP 5.5+
- * [gRPC core library](https://github.com/grpc/grpc) 0.11.0
-
-# Installation
-
-## Install PHP 5
-
-```
-$ sudo apt-get install git php5 php5-dev php-pear unzip
-```
-
-## Compile gRPC Core Library
-
-Clone the gRPC source code repository
-
-```
-$ git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc.git
-```
-
-Build and install the gRPC C core libraries
-
-```sh
-$ cd grpc
-$ git checkout --track origin/release-0_11
-$ git pull --recurse-submodules && git submodule update --init --recursive
-$ make
-$ sudo make install
-```
-
-Note: you may encounter a warning about the Protobuf compiler `protoc` 3.0.0+ not being installed. The following might help, and will be useful later on when we need to compile the `protoc-gen-php` tool.
-
-```sh
-$ cd grpc/third_party/protobuf
-$ sudo make install   # 'make' should have been run by core grpc
-```
-
-## Install the gRPC PHP extension
-
-Quick install
-
-```sh
-$ sudo pecl install grpc
-```
-
-Note: before a stable release, you may need to do
-
-```sh
-$ sudo pecl install grpc-beta
-```
-
-OR
-
-Compile from source
-
-```sh
-$ # from grpc
-$ cd src/php/ext/grpc
-$ phpize
-$ ./configure
-$ make
-$ sudo make install
-```
diff --git a/templates/package.xml.template b/templates/package.xml.template
index d309bfddbc3199b9dcedfd14d2c415198bd21098..8f757401e4c1771d31c843cb811fbaa5882fd6e1 100644
--- a/templates/package.xml.template
+++ b/templates/package.xml.template
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
    <contents>
     <dir baseinstalldir="/" name="/">
       <file baseinstalldir="/" name="config.m4" role="src" />
+      <file baseinstalldir="/" name="src/php/README.md" role="src" />
       <file baseinstalldir="/" name="src/php/ext/grpc/CREDITS" role="src" />
       <file baseinstalldir="/" name="src/php/ext/grpc/LICENSE" role="src" />
-      <file baseinstalldir="/" name="src/php/ext/grpc/README.md" role="src" />
       % for source in php_config_m4.src + php_config_m4.headers:
       <file baseinstalldir="/" name="${source}" role="src" />
       % endfor