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-DB Manager * Copyright (c) 2011 Giuseppe Sucameli
-
-DB Manager is a database manager plugin for QGIS.
-It allows showing the DBs contents and run query on them.
-
-In this moment DB Manager supports the following DBMS backends:
-- PostgreSQL/PostGIS through the psycopg2 pymodule
-- SQLite/SpatiaLite using the pyspatialite pymodule
-- Oracle Spatial using PyQt QtSql module
-
-For more info about the project, see at the wiki page:
-    http://qgis.org/wiki/DB_Manager_plugin_GSoC_2011
-
-or visit my GitHub repository:
-    https://github.com/brushtyler/db_manager
-
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+DB Manager
+==========
+
+Copyright (c) 2011 Giuseppe Sucameli
+
+DB Manager is a database manager core plugin for QGIS.
+It allows showing the database contents and running queries on them.
+
+At the moment DB Manager supports the following DBMS backends:
+
+- PostgreSQL/PostGIS through the psycopg2 pymodule
+- SQLite/SpatiaLite using the pyspatialite pymodule
+- GeoPackage
+- Oracle Spatial using PyQt QtSql module
+
+For more info about the project see the [QGIS
+Documentation](http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/plugins/plugins_db_manager.html)
+or the [GSoC 2011 wiki page](http://qgis.org/wiki/DB_Manager_plugin_GSoC_2011).