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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>chr@chymera.eu</email>
-		<name>Horea Christian</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-		SimpleITK is an image analysis toolkit with a large number of components
-		supporting general filtering operations, image segmentation and registration.
-		It is built on top of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit ITK
-		with the intent of providing a simplified interface to ITK. SimpleITK itself
-		is written in C++ but is available for a large number of programming
-		languages.
-	</longdescription>
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="github">SimpleITK/SimpleITK</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>