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 Package: testthat
 Title: Unit Testing for R
-Version: 3.2.3
+Version: 3.2.3.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Posit Software, PBC", role = c("cph", "fnd")),
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+# testthat (development version)
+
 # testthat 3.2.3
 
 * Fixed an issue where `expect_no_error(1)` was failing (#2037).