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+ikiwiki 1.2 released with these changes:
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+   * Remove dups from the brokenlinks list.
+   * Add libc6-dev to dependencies, needed to build wrappers.
+   * Install wikilist in correct location. Closes: #[367371](http://bugs.debian.org/367371)
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