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+SUMMARY = "Enables monitoring and display of application startup"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/startup-notification/"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Specifications"
+
+# most files are under MIT, but libsn/sn-util.c is under LGPL, the
+# effective license is LGPL
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a2ae2cd47d6d2f238410f5364dfbc0f2 \
+                    file://libsn/sn-util.c;endline=18;md5=18a14dc1825d38e741d772311fea9ee1 \
+                    file://libsn/sn-common.h;endline=23;md5=6d05bc0ebdcf5513a6e77cb26e8cd7e2 \
+                    file://test/test-boilerplate.h;endline=23;md5=923e706b2a70586176eead261cc5bb98"
+
+PR = "r2"
+
+SECTION = "libs"
+
+
+DEPENDS = "virtual/libx11 libsm xcb-util"
+
+inherit autotools pkgconfig distro_features_check
+# depends on virtual/libx11
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/startup-notification/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://obsolete_automake_macros.patch \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "2cd77326d4dcaed9a5a23a1232fb38e9"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "3c391f7e930c583095045cd2d10eb73a64f085c7fde9d260f2652c7cb3cfbe4a"