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+Document: libmate-desktop-doc
+Title: libmate-desktop API documentation
+Author: MATE Desktop Team
+Abstract: This document describes the API of the libmate-desktop library.
+Section: Programming/C
+
+Format: HTML
+Index: /usr/share/doc/libmate-desktop-doc/html/index.html
+Files: /usr/share/doc/libmate-desktop-doc/html/*