diff --git a/packages/qtest/qtest.2.8/descr b/packages/qtest/qtest.2.8/descr
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+qtest : Inline (Unit) Tests for OCaml.
+
+qtest extracts inline unit tests written using a special
+syntax in comments. Those tests are then run using the oUnit framework
+and the qcheck library.  The possibilities range from trivial tests --
+extremely simple to use -- to sophisticated random generation of test cases.
diff --git a/packages/qtest/qtest.2.8/opam b/packages/qtest/qtest.2.8/opam
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+opam-version: "1.2"
+maintainer: "Vincent Hugot <vincent.hugot@gmail.com>"
+authors: [
+  "Vincent Hugot <vincent.hugot@gmail.com>"
+  "Simon Cruanes <simon.cruanes.2007@m4x.org"
+]
+homepage: "https://github.com/vincent-hugot/qtest"
+bug-reports: "https://github.com/vincent-hugot/qtest/issues"
+doc:
+  "https://github.com/vincent-hugot/qtest/blob/master/README.adoc#introduction"
+tags: ["test" "property" "quickcheck"]
+dev-repo: "git@github.com:vincent-hugot/qtest.git"
+build: [make "build"]
+install: [make "BIN=%{bin}%" "install"]
+remove: ["rm" "%{bin}%/qtest"]
+depends: [
+  "ocamlfind"
+  "base-bytes"
+  "ounit" {>= "2.0.0"}
+  "ocamlbuild" {build}
+  "qcheck" {>= "0.5"}
+]
+available: [ocaml-version >= "4.00.0"]
diff --git a/packages/qtest/qtest.2.8/url b/packages/qtest/qtest.2.8/url
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+http: "https://github.com/vincent-hugot/qtest/archive/2.8.tar.gz"
+checksum: "3cbb863b25c00277847271a765d028d5"