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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 distro_features_check gobject-introspection
+# depends on gtk+3
+ANY_OF_DISTRO_FEATURES = "${GTK3DISTROFEATURES}"
+
+SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "e9d911f6a22435e0b922f2fe71212b59"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "9cb4ce315b2655860c524d46b56010874214ec27e854086c1a1d0260137efc04"
+
+# there were times, we had two versions of libnotify (oe-core libnotify:0.6.x /
+# meta-gnome libnotify3: 0.7.x)
+PROVIDES += "libnotify3"
+RPROVIDES_${PN} += "libnotify3"
+RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "libnotify3"
+RREPLACES_${PN} += "libnotify3"