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+Document: libosmocodec-doc
+Title: Documentation for the libosmocodec library
+Section: Programming
+
+Format: HTML
+Index: /usr/share/doc/libosmocore/codec/html/index.html
+Files: /usr/share/doc/libosmocore/codec/html/*.html