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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+repo-name = gjdwebserver
+eapis-banned = 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
+masters = gentoo
+thin-manifests = true
+sign-commits = false
+sign-manifests = false