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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <herd>dev-tools</herd>
+  <maintainer>
+    <email>nerdboy@gentoo.org</email>
+    <description>Primary maintainer</description>
+  </maintainer>
+  <longdescription>
+  This package provides generic linked-list manipulation routines.  In addition,
+  queue and stack abstractions are provided by single header files.
+  </longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>