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+# Copyright © 2017 Amdocs, Bell Canada
+#
+# 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
+#
+#       http://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.
+dependencies:
+  - name: common
+    version: ~6.x-0
+    # local reference to common chart, as it is
+    # a part of this chart's package and will not
+    # be published independently to a repo (at this point)
+    repository: '@local'