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+Wed Apr  3 09:35:22 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
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+- Initial packaging of the plexus-component-metadata 1.7.1 maven
+  plugin
+  * Generates META-INF/plexus/components.xml during maven build