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+/*.gmo
+/*.po
+/LINGUAS
+/Makefile.in.in
+/Makevars
+/Makevars.template
+/POTFILES.in
+/Rules-quot
+/bison-gnulib.pot
+/boldquot.sed
+/en@boldquot.header
+/en@quot.header
+/insert-header.sin
+/quot.sed
+/remove-potcdate.sin