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+SOURCES/iso-codes-iso-codes-3.79.tar.gz
diff --git a/.iso-codes.metadata b/.iso-codes.metadata
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+cdecf421032bfd0ac22bee82a60aa6157d4935ab SOURCES/iso-codes-iso-codes-3.79.tar.gz
diff --git a/SPECS/iso-codes.spec b/SPECS/iso-codes.spec
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+Name:       iso-codes
+Summary:    ISO code lists and translations
+Version:    3.79
+Release:    2%{?dist}
+License:    LGPLv2+
+URL:        https://salsa.debian.org/iso-codes-team/iso-codes
+Source0:    https://salsa.debian.org/iso-codes-team/%{name}/-/archive/%{name}-%{version}/%{name}-%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires: gettext
+BuildRequires: python3-devel
+BuildArch: noarch
+
+# for /usr/share/xml
+Requires: xml-common
+
+%description
+This package provides the ISO 639 Language code list, the ISO 4217
+Currency code list, the ISO 3166 Territory code list, and ISO 3166-2
+sub-territory lists, and all their translations in gettext format.
+
+%package devel
+Summary: Files for development using %{name}
+Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+This package contains the pkg-config files for development
+when building programs that use %{name}.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -n %{name}-%{name}-%{version}
+
+%build
+%configure
+%make_build
+
+%install
+%make_install INSTALL="%{__install} -p"
+
+%find_lang %{name} --all-name
+
+%files -f %{name}.lang
+%doc ChangeLog README.md
+%license COPYING
+%dir %{_datadir}/xml/iso-codes
+%{_datadir}/xml/iso-codes/*.xml
+%{_datadir}/iso-codes
+
+%files devel
+%{_datadir}/pkgconfig/iso-codes.pc
+
+%changelog
+* Tue Aug 14 2018 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.79-2
+- Resolves:rh#1615536: iso-codes FTBFS for missing BR:python3-devel
+
+* Wed May 16 2018 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.79-1
+- Update to 3.79 version (#1577820)
+
+* Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 3.77-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Nov 22 2017 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.77-1
+- Update to 3.77 version (#1516284)
+
+* Tue Sep 19 2017 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.76-1
+- Update to 3.76 version
+
+* Wed Jul 26 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 3.75-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Apr 26 2017 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.75-1
+- Update to 3.75 version
+
+* Fri Feb 10 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 3.74-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Jan 19 2017 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.74-1
+- Update to 3.74
+
+* Tue Jan 03 2017 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.73-1
+- Update to 3.73
+
+* Mon Jan 02 2017 Björn Esser <bjoern.esser@gmail.com> - 3.72-2
+- Updated spec to use recent macros
+- Added needed BR: python3
+
+* Mon Dec 12 2016 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.72-1
+- Update to 3.72
+
+* Thu Nov 17 2016 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.71-1
+- Update to 3.71
+
+* Tue Aug 30 2016 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.70-1
+- Update to 3.70
+
+* Mon Aug 08 2016 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.69-1
+- Update to 3.69
+
+* Tue May 03 2016 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.68-1
+- Upstream renamed README to README.md
+- Update to 3.68
+
+* Mon Apr 04 2016 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.67-1
+- Update to 3.67
+- LICENSE renamed to COPYING file
+
+* Wed Mar 02 2016 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.66-1
+- Update to 3.66
+- Upstream now providing json formatted iso-codes data
+
+* Thu Feb 04 2016 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.65-1
+- Update to 3.65
+
+* Thu Feb 04 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 3.64-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Jan 05 2016 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.64-1
+- Update to 3.64
+
+* Fri Nov 27 2015 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.63-1
+- Update to 3.63
+
+* Fri Oct 02 2015 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.62-1
+- Update to 3.62
+
+* Wed Sep 02 2015 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.61-1
+- Update to 3.61
+- Drop Group tag
+- use %%license macro
+
+* Mon Aug 03 2015 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.60-1
+- Update to 3.60
+
+* Fri Jul 03 2015 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.59-1
+- Update to 3.59
+
+* Wed Jun 17 2015 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.58-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Jun 09 2015 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.58-1
+- Update to 3.58
+
+* Tue Oct 28 2014 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.57-1
+- Update to 3.57
+
+* Wed Sep 03 2014 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.56-1
+- Update to 3.56
+
+* Thu Jul 10 2014 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.55-1
+- Update to 3.55
+
+* Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.54-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Jun 03 2014 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.54-1
+- Update to 3.54
+
+* Fri May 02 2014 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.53-1
+- Update to 3.53
+
+* Thu Apr 03 2014 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.52-1
+- Update to 3.52
+
+* Tue Feb 04 2014 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.51-1
+- Update to 3.51
+
+* Thu Jan 02 2014 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.50-1
+- Update to 3.50
+
+* Fri Dec 06 2013 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.49-1
+- Update to 3.49
+
+* Sun Nov 03 2013 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.48-1
+- Update to 3.48
+
+* Fri Oct 04 2013 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.47-1
+- Update to 3.47
+
+* Mon Sep 02 2013 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.46-1
+- Update to 3.46
+
+* Mon Aug 05 2013 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.45-1
+- Update to 3.45
+
+* Sat Aug 03 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.44-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Jul 05 2013 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.44-1
+- Update to 3.44
+
+* Mon Jun 10 2013 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.43-1
+- Update to 3.43
+
+* Tue May 07 2013 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.42-1
+- Update to 3.42
+
+* Wed Feb 27 2013 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.41-2
+- bump the spec for missing updated sources
+
+* Mon Feb 25 2013 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.41-1
+- Update to 3.41
+
+* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.40-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sun Nov 04 2012 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.40-1
+- Update to 3.40
+
+* Thu Oct 04 2012 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.39-1
+- Update to 3.39
+
+* Wed Aug 08 2012 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.38-1
+- Update to 3.38
+
+* Thu Jul 19 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.37-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon Jul 02 2012 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.37-1
+- Update to 3.37
+
+* Thu Jun 07 2012 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.36-1
+- Update to 3.36
+
+* Wed May 02 2012 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.35-1
+- Update to 3.35
+
+* Wed Apr 04 2012 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.34-1
+- Update to 3.34
+
+* Wed Mar 14 2012 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.33-1
+- Update to 3.33
+
+* Thu Feb 09 2012 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.32.2-1
+- Update to 3.32.2
+
+* Sat Feb 04 2012 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.32.1-1
+- Update to 3.32.1
+
+* Thu Jan 12 2012 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.32-1
+- Update to 3.32
+
+* Mon Dec 05 2011 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.31-1
+- Update to 3.31
+
+* Mon Nov 07 2011 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.30-1
+- Update to 3.30
+
+* Mon Oct 03 2011 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.29-1
+- Update to 3.29
+
+* Tue Sep 06 2011 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.28-1
+- Update to 3.28
+
+* Mon Aug 08 2011 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.27.1-1
+- Update to 3.27.1
+
+* Wed Jul 13 2011 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> - 3.27-1
+- Update to 3.27
+
+* Mon May 02 2011 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.25.1-1
+- Update to 3.25.1
+
+* Sun Apr  3 2011 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 3.25-1
+- Update to 3.25
+
+* Mon Mar 07 2011 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.24.2-1
+- Update to 3.24.2
+
+* Wed Feb 09 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.24.1-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Feb 09 2011 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.24.1-1
+- Update to 3.24.1
+
+* Mon Feb 07 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.24-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Jan 07 2011 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.24-1
+- Update to 3.24
+
+* Mon Dec 06 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.23-1
+- Update to 3.23
+
+* Tue Nov 09 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.22-1
+- Update to 3.22
+
+* Mon Oct 04 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.21-1
+- Update to 3.21
+
+* Tue Sep 07 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.20-1
+- Update to 3.20
+- Drop buildroot, %%clean and cleaning buildroot in %%install
+
+* Wed Aug 04 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.19-1
+- Update to 3.19
+
+* Mon Jul 05 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.18-1
+- Update to 3.18
+
+* Wed Jun 16 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.17-1
+- Update to 3.17
+
+* Mon May 03 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.16-1
+- Update to 3.16
+
+* Mon Apr 05 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.15-1
+- Update to 3.15
+
+* Tue Mar 02 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.14-1
+- Update to 3.14
+
+* Tue Feb 02 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.13-1
+- Update to 3.13
+
+* Tue Jan 12 2010 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.12.1-1
+- Update to 3.12.1
+
+* Wed Dec 02 2009 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat.com> - 3.12-1
+- Update to 3.12
+
+* Mon Nov 02 2009 Parag Nemade <pnemade@redhat.com> - 3.11.1-1
+- Update to 3.11.1
+
+* Fri Oct 23 2009 Parag Nemade <pnemade@redhat.com> - 3.11-1
+- Update to 3.11
+
+* Thu Sep 17 2009 Parag Nemade <pnemade@redhat.com> - 3.10.3-1
+- Update to 3.10.3
+
+* Wed Aug 05 2009 Parag Nemade <pnemade@redhat.com> - 3.10.2-1
+- Update to 3.10.2
+
+* Tue Aug 04 2009 Parag Nemade <pnemade@redhat.com> - 3.10.1-1
+- Update to 3.10.1
+
+* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.10-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Jun 02 2009 Parag Nemade <pnemade@redhat.com> - 3.10-2
+- Upstream stopped providing iso_639.tab file since 3.9 release,
+  so remove it from %%files.
+
+* Tue Jun 02 2009 Parag Nemade <pnemade@redhat.com> - 3.10-1
+- Update to 3.10
+
+* Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 3.8-1
+- Update to 3.8
+
+* Sun Mar 22 2009 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 3.7-1
+- Update to 3.7
+
+* Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.6-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon Feb  2 2009 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 3.6-1
+- Update to 3.6
+
+* Mon Jan  5 2009 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 3.5.1-1
+- Update to 3.5.1
+
+* Tue Dec  9 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 3.5-1
+- Update to 3.5
+
+* Sat Sep 20 2008 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 3.3-1
+- Update to 3.3.
+- Address minor issues in merge review (#225918): update %%description,
+  don't use %%makeinstall, drop unneeded %%debug_package override, use
+  parallel build.
+
+* Wed Jul  2 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 3.1-1
+- Update to 3.1
+
+* Wed May  7 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 2.1-1
+- Update to 2.1
+
+* Sun Mar  9 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 2.0-1
+- Update to 2.0
+
+* Wed Feb 27 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 1.9-1
+- Update to 1.9
+
+* Tue Feb  5 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> 1.8-2
+- Bump gettext BR
+- Use the smaller .bz2 tarball
+
+* Sat Feb  2 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> 1.8-1
+- Update to 1.8
+
+* Sat Dec 29 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 1.7-1
+- Update to 1.7
+
+* Tue Dec  4 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 1.6-1
+- Update to 1.6
+
+* Fri Oct 26 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 1.5-1
+- Update to 1.5
+
+* Wed Sep  5 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 1.4-1
+- Update to 1.4
+
+* Wed Aug  8 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> 1.3-1
+- Update to 1.3
+- Update the license field
+- Use %%find_lang for translations
+- Don't create debuginfo
+
+* Tue Jul 24 2007 Parag Nemade  <pnemade@redhat.com> 
+- Update to 1.2
+
+* Wed Mar  7 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 1.0-1
+- Update to 1.0
+
+* Fri Oct 20 2006 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 0.56-1
+- Update to 0.56
+
+* Mon Aug 28 2006 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 0.53-1
+- Update to 0.53
+
+* Sat Jun 24 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> 0.49-2
+- Missing BR gettext
+
+* Sun Jan  1 2006 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 0.49-1
+- Update to 0.49
+
+* Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
+- rebuilt
+
+* Fri Aug 26 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 0.47-1
+- Update to 0.47
+
+* Mon Jun 13 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 0.46-2
+- The .pc file should be installed in %%{_datadir} instead of %%{_libdir}
+  since this is a noarch package.  64bit platforms will otherwise look in
+  the 64bit version of the %%{_libdir} and not find the .pc file and 
+  cause them to not find iso-codes
+
+* Fri Jun 10 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 0.46-1
+- Initial RPM