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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="spwhitton"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/9c3f08f80e67733fd506c353239569eb"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2018-11-03T19:41:32Z"
+ content="""
+Looking at the error message alone, I am pretty sure this is fixed in recent git-annex; I am just waiting on the Haskell transition in Debian to be able to build the package.
+"""]]