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-# rust-zopfli
-
-The rust-zopfli package
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-* Mon May 31 2021 Rémi Lauzier <remilauzier@protonmail.com> - 0.4.0-1
-- Initial package
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+no longer needed
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-# Generated by rust2rpm 20
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-
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-Release:        %autorelease
-Summary:        Rust implementation of a compression algorithm
-
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-
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-Rust implementation of the Zopfli compression algorithm.}
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-SHA512 (zopfli-0.5.0.crate) = f8ea69c3aea08a53851e177e3579c46076271d28f6fe2da55ebd46a5f6d918afd084c0dc372313f4a06798ceb35adb577ce30bf272f273b842ba95172be3c9ec
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---- zopfli-0.5.0/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
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- version = "2"
- 
- [dependencies.typed-arena]
--version = "2"
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