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+Downloading the ruamel.yaml source
+==================================
+
+ruamel.yaml is available as a Python package from PyPI. However, this
+does not include the unit tests. These are available in the
+SourceForge repository, but the repository does not have any tarballs
+available for download. So the watch file calls a local script to
+clone the mercurial repository, check out the current tag, and pack it
+into a tarball in place of the downloaded PyPI version. This script
+requires the mercurial package to be installed, but this is not a
+build-dependency.