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+[DEFAULT]
+Package: pybitmessage
+Section: net
+Build-Depends: dh-python, libssl-dev, python-all-dev, python-setuptools
+Depends: openssl, python-setuptools
+Recommends: apparmor, python-msgpack, python-qt4, python-stem, tor
+Suggests: python-pyopencl, python-jsonrpclib, python-defusedxml, python-qrcode
+Suite: bionic