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-# Copyright 2021 Google LLC
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-import synthtool as s
-from synthtool.languages import java
-
-
-for library in s.get_staging_dirs():
-  # put any special-case replacements here
-  s.move(library)
-
-s.remove_staging_dirs()
-java.common_templates(
-  excludes=[
-    "CONTRIBUTING.md",
-    "README.md",
-    ".github/release-please.yml",
-    ".github/workflows/auto-release.yaml",
-    ".github/workflows/samples.yaml",
-    "samples/*",
-    "renovate.json",
-    ".kokoro/presubmit/graalvm-native.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/presubmit/graalvm-native-17.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/presubmit/common.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/requirements.txt",
-    ".kokoro/requirements.in"
-  ]
-)
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