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+{cabal}:
+
+cabal.mkDerivation (self : {
+  pname = "async";
+  version = "1.2";
+  sha256 = "a5963d36fc1ba142d18920f967190b25cf80f700d863372b6d33ad5257a1773a";
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [];
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://gitorious.org/async/";
+    description = "Asynchronous Computations";
+    license = self.stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
+  };
+})