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+Do not report issues here!
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+Use https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/ instead . 
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+See https://inkscape.org/contribute/report-bugs/ for more instructions. If you notice this after creating an issue, don't do anything, don't create a second issue, let the bug wranglers move it to appropriate section.
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