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+[general]
+description = "Knowingly unavailable dependency template"
+long-description = "This is a placeholder for an unsupported crate. Please contact the maintainer if you want to take over packaging and maintenance of this crate."
+maintainers = ["alejandro@mosteo.com"]
+maintainers-logins = ["mosteo"]
+licenses = []
+tags = []
+
+[[external]] 
+# A external crate never found during dependency resolution.
+kind = "hint"
+hint = "This crate is unavailable through Alire. Please check upstream installation documentation."