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+# This is a cross-platform list tracking distribution packages needed for install and tests;
+# see https://docs.openstack.org/infra/bindep/ for additional information.
+
+# libsrvg2 is needed for sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter in docs builds.
+librsvg2-tools [doc platform:rpm]
+librsvg2-bin [doc platform:dpkg]