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+[submodule "deps/json-c"]
+	path = deps/json-c
+	url = https://github.com/json-c/json-c.git
diff --git a/deps/json-c b/deps/json-c
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+Subproject commit 3df1f98b4ab52f271dba5e13ec59cf4d1d093e1a