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+This works for lxc 3 (and, also, if you the two special cases in
+lxc-lib, namely lxc-cgroup and lxc-netdev, you can support lxc < 3 too.
+
+Tested on Debian buster and Debian jessie.
+
+See the individual files for copyright and installation/configuration
+information.