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+SUMMARY = "A spellcheck library for GTK 4"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libspelling"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
+
+DEPENDS = "enchant2 gtk4 gtksourceview5 icu"
+
+inherit gnomebase pkgconfig gettext gi-docgen vala gobject-introspection
+
+GIR_MESON_OPTION = ''
+GIDOCGEN_MESON_OPTION = 'docs'
+
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "7a787b467bd493f6baffb44138dbc4bef78aaab60efb76a7db88b243bf0f6343"