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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<package format="2">
+  <name>darknet</name>
+  <version>0.1.0</version>
+  <description>Darknet, an open source neural network framework.</description>
+
+  <author email="you@example.com">Joseph Redmon</author>
+  <maintainer email="you@example.com">Alexey Bochkovskiy</maintainer>
+
+  <license>YOLO license</license>
+
+  <buildtool_depend>cmake</buildtool_depend>
+
+  <depend>libopencv-dev</depend>
+
+  <!-- nvidia-cuda-dev is just the libraries to link against -->
+  <exec_depend>nvidia-cuda-dev</exec_depend>
+
+  <!-- nvidia-cuda includes nvidia-cuda-dev plus the nvcc compiler -->
+  <build_depend>nvidia-cuda</build_depend>
+
+  <export>
+    <build_type>cmake</build_type>
+  </export>
+</package>
+