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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="spwhitton"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/9c3f08f80e67733fd506c353239569eb"
+ subject="comment 2"
+ date="2018-12-03T16:38:12Z"
+ content="""
+Thanks!  Once the buildds catch up, I am excited to have git-annex v7 in both buster and stretch-backports.
+"""]]