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+SUMMARY = "libportal provides GIO-style async APIs for most Flatpak portals."
+DESCRIPTION = "It provides simple asynchronous wrappers for most Flatpak portals \
+with a familiar GObject API along side the D-Bus API"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/flatpak/libportal"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/flatpak/libportal/issues"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv3"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3000208d539ec061b899bce1d9ce9404"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/flatpak/${BPN}.git;protocol=https;branch=master"
+SRCREV = "467a397fd7996557f837cdc26ac07c01c62810e5"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+inherit meson gtk-doc gobject-introspection
+
+DEPENDS += "glib-2.0 glib-2.0-native gtk+3"
+
+EXTRA_OEMESON = "-Dbackends=gtk3 -Dvapi=false"