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+SUMMARY = "An HTTP library implementation in C"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnome.org/"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
+
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=5f30f0716dfdd0d91eb439ebec522ec2"
+
+SECTION = "x11/gnome/libs"
+
+DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 gnutls libxml2 sqlite3 intltool-native"
+
+# libsoup-gnome is entirely deprecated and just stubs in 2.42 onwards.  Enable
+# by default but let it be easily disabled.
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "gnome"
+PACKAGECONFIG[gnome] = "--with-gnome,--without-gnome"
+
+SHRT_VER = "${@bb.data.getVar('PV',d,1).split('.')[0]}.${@bb.data.getVar('PV',d,1).split('.')[1]}"
+SRC_URI = "${GNOME_MIRROR}/libsoup/${SHRT_VER}/libsoup-${PV}.tar.xz"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "9a84d66e1b7ccd3bd340574b11eccc15"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1e01365ac4af3817187ea847f9d3588c27eee01fc519a5a7cb212bb78b0f667b"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/libsoup-${PV}"
+
+inherit autotools gettext pkgconfig
+
+# glib-networking is needed for SSL, proxies, etc.
+RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "glib-networking"