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+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
+
+GNOMEBASEBUILDCLASS = "meson"
+inherit gnomebase upstream-version-is-even gobject-introspection
+
+DEPENDS += " \
+    glib-2.0 \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "955475ad3e43aabd6f6f70435264b5ee77bd265bd95545211fee026b08d378a0"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= ""
+EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Dintrospection=enabled -Dvapi=false"
+
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "gobject-introspection-data"