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+---
+id: "ingredient:coversheets"
+name: "Coversheets Ingredient"
+type: "ingredient"
+version: 2.0
+maintainers:
+  - name: "David R Newman"
+    email: "drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk"
+description: >
+  This is an ingredient that allows deployment of coversheets on PDF documents.
+requires:
+  - component: "core"
+    version: ">= 3.5.0"
+  - component: "ingredient:openoffice"
+    version: ">= 2.0.0"
+notes: >
+  This can be installed by dropping into the ingredients sub-directory and
+  adding to your archive's package.yml.