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+# your responsibility to verify that the values are complete and correct.
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3000208d539ec061b899bce1d9ce9404"
+
+GNOMEBASEBUILDCLASS = "meson"
+inherit gnomebase upstream-version-is-even gobject-introspection gtk-icon-cache
+
+DEPENDS += " \
+    glib-2.0 \
+    gtk4 \
+    libadwaita \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "b87b8fa9b79768cc704243793f0158a040a1e46d37b9889188545a7f7dcaa6fb"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= ""
+#EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Ddocs=disabled"
+#GTKDOC_MESON_DISABLE_FLAG = "disabled"
+
+EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Ddocs=disabled  -Dintrospection=enabled -Dvapi=false"
+
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "gobject-introspection-data"