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+SUMMARY = "Library for sending desktop notifications to a notification daemon"
+SECTION = "libs"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34"
+
+DEPENDS = "dbus gtk+3 dbus-glib"
+
+inherit gnomebase gtk-doc
+
+SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "a4997019d08f46f3bf57b78e6f795a59"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "0ef61ca400d30e28217979bfa0e73a7406b19c32dd76150654ec5b2bdf47d837"
+
+# there were times, we had two versions of libnotify (oe-core libnotify:0.6.x /
+# meta-gnome libnotify3: 0.7.x)
+PROVIDES += "libnotify3"
+RPROVIDES_${PN} += "libnotify3"
+RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "libnotify3"
+RREPLACES_${PN} += "libnotify3"