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+SUMMARY = "A library for bits of crypto UI and parsing etc"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnome.org/"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=55ca817ccb7d5b5b66355690e9abc605"
+
+DEPENDS = "gtk+3 p11-kit glib-2.0 libgcrypt vala"
+
+inherit autotools gnomebase gtk-icon-cache gtk-doc
+
+SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "d5835680be0b6a838e02a528d5378d9c"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "ecfe8df41cc88158364bb15addc670b11e539fe844742983629ba2323888d075"
+
+FILES_${PN} += " \
+    ${datadir}/dbus-1 \
+    ${datadir}/gcr-3 \
+"