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+/*
+Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+// The signals package contains libraries for handling signals to shutdown the system.
+package signals
+
+// dummy imports to ensure that `dep ensure` can vendor the required
+// dependencies after `kubebuilder init` step.
+import (
+	_ "github.com/emicklei/go-restful"
+	_ "github.com/go-openapi/spec"
+	_ "github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
+	_ "github.com/spf13/pflag"
+	_ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth/gcp"
+	_ "sigs.k8s.io/testing_frameworks/integration"
+)