diff --git a/packages/rpclib/rpclib.5.9.0/descr b/packages/rpclib/rpclib.5.9.0/descr
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+Remote procedure calls (RPC) library
+
+`rpclib` is a library that provides remote procedure calls (RPC)
+using XML or JSON as transport encodings. The transport mechanism itself
+is outside the scope of this library as all conversions are from and to
+strings.
diff --git a/packages/rpclib/rpclib.5.9.0/opam b/packages/rpclib/rpclib.5.9.0/opam
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+opam-version: "1.2"
+maintainer: "thomas@gazagnaire.org"
+authors: "Thomas Gazagnaire, Jon Ludlam"
+homepage: "https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-rpc"
+bug-reports: "https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-rpc/issues"
+dev-repo: "git://github.com/mirage/ocaml-rpc"
+doc: "https://mirage.github.io/ocaml-rpc/rpclib"
+tags: [
+  "org:mirage"
+  "org:xapi-project"
+]
+build-test: [
+    ["jbuilder" "runtest" "-p" name]
+]
+build: [["jbuilder" "build" "-p" name "-j" jobs]]
+depends: [
+  "alcotest" {test}
+  "jbuilder"  {build}
+  "cmdliner"
+  "rresult"
+  "xmlm"
+  "yojson"
+]
+available: [ ocaml-version >= "4.04.0" ]
diff --git a/packages/rpclib/rpclib.5.9.0/url b/packages/rpclib/rpclib.5.9.0/url
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+http: "https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-rpc/archive/v5.9.0.tar.gz"
+checksum: "177db71621a7aa7a55cbea6c237eb6dc"