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+(I'm not sure how you would like to do this -- should I send commits for you to pull, or do you prefer a patch pasted in here?)
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+In any case, here's a build-deps fix, originally sent as a pull request [1].
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+https://github.com/joeyh/git-annex/compare/master...jlebar:build-deps
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+[1] https://github.com/joeyh/git-annex/pull/37