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+SUMMARY = "A minimal low-level HTTP client"
+DESCRIPTION = "The HTTP core package of httpx2: connection pooling, \
+    HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 transport and proxy support."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/pydantic/httpx2"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.md;md5=77c5a523c15d4a5887b081bba41ca110"
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "c72cd0413563b17e1cd8354677dff887466f8ec2551679759e93126534428643"
+
+inherit pypi python_hatchling
+
+DEPENDS += "\
+    python3-uv-dynamic-versioning-native \
+    python3-hatch-fancy-pypi-readme-native \
+    python3-jinja2-native \
+    python3-tomlkit-native \
+    python3-dunamai-native \
+"
+
+# anyio comes from the "asyncio" extra, which httpx2 needs for its async
+# client.
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
+    python3-anyio \
+    python3-h11 \
+    python3-truststore \
+"