From 82f727c74623dba17577e9f92b39bc3566ea0c2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Caden Myers <cjm2304@columbia.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:56:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] move devutils outside of src and give it a readme

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 devutils/README.md                                            | 1 +
 {src/diffpy/srreal/devutils => devutils}/tunePeakPrecision.py | 0
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 devutils/README.md
 rename {src/diffpy/srreal/devutils => devutils}/tunePeakPrecision.py (100%)

diff --git a/devutils/README.md b/devutils/README.md
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+A collection of scripts for development testing. Not meant to be user facing.
diff --git a/src/diffpy/srreal/devutils/tunePeakPrecision.py b/devutils/tunePeakPrecision.py
similarity index 100%
rename from src/diffpy/srreal/devutils/tunePeakPrecision.py
rename to devutils/tunePeakPrecision.py

From 890b25286a8f678c5d67c82f3b3aa28d2388b99b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Caden Myers <cjm2304@columbia.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:57:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] news

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 news/devutils.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 news/devutils.rst

diff --git a/news/devutils.rst b/news/devutils.rst
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+**Added:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Changed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Deprecated:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Removed:**
+
+* Remove utils scripts ``devutils`` from the package.
+
+**Fixed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Security:**
+
+* <news item>