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+name: "fec"
+description: "This library package provides several forward error correction (FEC) decoders and accelerated primitives useful in digital signal processing (DSP)."
+third_party {
+  url {
+    type: HOMEPAGE
+    value: "http://www.ka9q.net/code/fec/"
+  }
+  version: "3.0.1"
+  last_upgrade_date {
+    year: 2007
+    month: 8
+    day: 7
+  }
+}