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gsettings-desktop-schemas - 50.1

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jc - 1.26.0

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libadwaita - 1.9.4

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libcec - 8.1.7

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poetry - 2.5.0

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shotwell - 33.0

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tox - 4.63.0

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unicode-data - 18.0.0

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uzdoom - 5.0.1

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virtualenv - 21.7.16

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xdg-desktop-portal-gnome - 50.0

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2026-09-20

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