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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE catmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<catmetadata>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		The dev-ros category contains ROS and ROS-related packages.
+	</longdescription>
+</catmetadata>
+