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message to find where the warning is raised,
and therefore where the logic for that code exists.
+* When adding a new checker class you can use the :file:`get_unused_message_id_category.py`
+ script in :file:`./scripts` to get a message id that is not used by
+ any of the other checkers.
Building the documentation
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