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-# Copyright (C) 2022 Digi International.
-
-# Don't create an empty openssh-dev package.
-#
-# When building an SDK (with populate_sdk), all '-dev' packages are
-# installed. And empty 'openssh-dev' package would pull in 'openssh-sshd'
-# package even if our image is only depending on 'openssh-sftp'.
-#
-# This causes a conflict with 'dropbear' server, which is only using
-# openssh-sftp.
-ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-dev = "0"