diff --git a/gump.xml b/gump.xml
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--- a/gump.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-
-<module name="jakarta-poi">
-    <description>POI</description>
-    <url href="http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/">
-    </url>
-    <cvs module="jakarta-poi" repository="jakarta">
-    </cvs>
-    <project name="jakarta-poi">
-        <ant buildfile="build.xml" target="dist">
-        </ant>
-        <package>org.apache.poi</package>
-        <depend project="commons-logging"/>
-        <depend project="commons-beanutils"/>
-        <depend project="commons-collections"/>
-        <depend project="commons-lang"/>
-        <depend project="junit"/>
-        <depend project="xml-xerces"/>
-        <work nested="build/classes"/>
-        <work nested="build/contrib-classes"/>
-        <work nested="build/scratchpad-classes"/>
-        <home nested="build/dist"/>
-        <jar name="build/dist/poi-1.10.0-dev-@@DATE@@.jar"/>
-        <jar name="build/dist/poi-contrib-1.10.0-dev-@@DATE@@.jar"/>
-        <jar name="build/dist/poi-scratchpad-1.10.0-dev-@@DATE@@.jar"/>
-        <javadoc module="jakarta-poi" nested="build/tmp/site/build/site/apidocs"/>
-
-        <nag to="poi-dev@jakarta.apache.org"
-            from="&quot;Gump :-(&quot; &lt;gump@jakarta.apache.org&gt;"/>
-    </project>
-</module>
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