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+apertis-dev-tools (0.2024.17) apertis; urgency=medium
+
+  * apertis-pkg-merge-local: Add new tool.
+    Add a tool to help when a package update cannot be done by CI. This tool
+    should help developers to perform the merge in a similar way as the CI
+    and also help to run some basic checks.
+
+ -- Walter Lozano <walter.lozano@collabora.com>  Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:34:26 -0300
+
 apertis-dev-tools (0.2024.16) apertis; urgency=medium
 
   * Drop unneeded dependencies.