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+# melodic/ros-distro-preferred-providers.inc
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019 LG Electronics, Inc.
+
+# Set PREFERRED_PROVIDER_<PN> here for non-platform packages and to override those set in
+# ros-distro-platform-preferred-providers.inc .