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+[add_build_requires]
+perl(CGI)=0
+perl(LWP::UserAgent)=0
+perl(HTTP::Daemon)=0
+perl(Test::More)=0
+perl(Scalar::Util)=0
+
+[add_requires]
+; not picked up due to eval { requires ... } constructs
+perl(Scalar::Util)=0
+perl(LWP::UserAgent)=0
+perl(HTTP::Daemon)=0
+
+[metadata_filtering]
+; this will be unneeded once perl_default_filter starts filtering dupes
+filter_from_provides=/^perl(JSON::PP)$/d
+