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+SUMMARY = "Unit testing framework for Lua"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/bluebird75/luaunit"
+LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=3cbaf542c6e9a9dcad6c372227ac49a1"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/bluebird75/luaunit.git;protocol=https;nobranch=1;tag=LUAUNIT_V3_5"
+SRCREV = "9678c933e71cb26adcdfa6cf1baceb926398eb48"
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "lua"
+
+LUA_VERSION = "5.5"
+
+do_install() {
+    install -D ${S}/luaunit.lua ${D}${datadir}/lua/${LUA_VERSION}/luaunit.lua
+}
+
+FILES:${PN} = "${datadir}/lua/${LUA_VERSION}/luaunit.lua"