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 # macaroon
---
-    import "gopkg.in/macaroon.v2"
+
+```go
+import "gopkg.in/macaroon.v2"
+````
 
 The macaroon package implements macaroons as described in the paper "Macaroons:
 Cookies with Contextual Caveats for Decentralized Authorization in the Cloud"