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+SUMMARY = "shUnit2 is a xUnit based unit test framework for Bourne based shell scripts"
+AUTHOR = "Kate Ward <kate.ward@forestent.com>"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/kward/shunit2"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=e3fc50a88d0a364313df4b21ef20c29e"
+
+SRC_URI = " git://github.com/kward/shunit2.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
+SRCREV = "080159b303537888c5d41910b4d47a5002638e30"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+do_install() {
+    install -D -m 0755 ${S}/shunit2 ${D}${bindir}/shunit2
+}