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+# This file contains runtime (non-python) dependencies
+# More info at: http://docs.openstack.org/infra/bindep/readme.html
+
+# MySQL and PostgreSQL databases since some jobs are set up in
+# OpenStack infra that need these like
+libpq-dev [test]