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+# d/control is autogenerated and does not pick up the *example* dependencies as
+# they are not required to build the debian package, but for our buildbot build
+# call we need them
+dependencies:
+- librust-tokio-dev
+- librust-tokio+fs-dev
+- librust-tokio+macros-dev
+- librust-tokio+rt-multi-thread-dev