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@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ or similarly if you are trying to build an individual package.
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-I'd like to thank the effort behind the people from the sabotage-linux
-project.  Their work has been really helpful to us.
+I'd like to thank the people behind the sabotage-linux project.
+Their work has been really helpful to us.
 
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