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+Source: nlsr
+Priority: extra
+Maintainer: A K M Mahmudul Hoque <ahoque1@memphis.edu>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0.0),
+ python (>= 2.7.0),
+ pkg-config (>= 0.26),
+ ndn-cxx-dev (>= 0.2.0~rc0.1), 
+ liblog4cxx10-dev (>= 0.10.0),
+ libcrypto++-dev (>= 5.6.1),
+ protobuf-compiler (>= 2.5.0),
+ libprotobuf-dev (>= 2.5.0),
+ libboost-all-dev (>= 1.48.0)
+Standards-Version: 3.9.2
+Section: net
+Homepage: http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nlsr/wiki/
+Vcs-Git: git://github.com/named-data/NLSR.git
+Vcs-Browser: http://github.com/named-data/NLSR
+
+Package: nlsr
+Architecture: i386 amd64
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} , ndn-cxx
+Description: A link state routing protocol for Named Data Networking