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-Vendored files for Datadog debugging
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-**Notice**: This directory contains files that are not covered under
-the repository license and have been copied from elsewhere for build
-and deploy convenience.
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-Listing of files, their origin, and their purpose for inclusion:
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-* ``ddtrace-*.whl``: `ddtrace <https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-py>`__
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-  * ``ddtrace-2.14.0.dev106+g241ca66cf-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl`` is a CI build of `<https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-py/pull/10676>`__ (2024-09-23) for a possible root-cause fix for `<https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/692>`__. It will be fetched from GitHub for edx-platform deploys at build time.
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