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-packaging  # needed for update-bundled and changelog
-sphinx ; python_version >= '3.5' # docs build requires python 3+
-sphinx-notfound-page ; python_version >= '3.5' # docs build requires python 3+
-straight.plugin ; python_version >= '3.5' # needed for hacking/build-ansible.py which will host changelog generation and requires python 3+