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@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@ Bugs
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 Bug reports and feature requests should be made in the calibre bug tracker at [launchpad](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre).
-The GitHub bug tracker is only for people contributing code to calibre.
+GitHub is only used for code hosting and pull requests.