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+SOURCES/libmypaint-1.6.1.tar.xz
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+04c08ed585de3469f6f23d52b83f3566a27fb4a6 SOURCES/libmypaint-1.6.1.tar.xz
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+Name: libmypaint
+Version: 1.6.1
+Release: 7%{?dist}
+Summary: Library for making brush strokes
+
+# Compute some version related macros.
+# Ugly, need to get quoting percent signs straight.
+%global major %(ver=%{version}; echo ${ver%%%%.*})
+%global minor %(ver=%{version}; ver=${ver#%major.}; echo ${ver%%%%.*})
+%global micro %(ver=%{version}; ver=${ver#%major.%minor.}; echo ${ver%%%%.*})
+
+License: ISC
+URL: https://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint
+Source0: https://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint/releases/download/v%{version}/libmypaint-%{version}.tar.xz
+
+BuildRequires: babl-devel
+BuildRequires: gcc
+BuildRequires: doxygen
+BuildRequires: glib2-devel
+BuildRequires: gobject-introspection-devel
+BuildRequires: intltool
+BuildRequires: json-c-devel
+BuildRequires: python3-breathe
+BuildRequires: python3-sphinx
+BuildRequires: make
+
+Conflicts: mypaint < 1.3.0
+
+%description
+This is a self-contained library containing the MyPaint brush engine.
+
+%package devel
+Summary: Development files for libmypaint
+Requires: %{name}%{?isa} = %{?epoch:%{epoch}:}%{version}-%{release}
+Requires: pkgconfig
+
+%description devel
+This package contains files needed for development with libmypaint.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -p1
+
+# Make sure the build uses python3
+sed -i -e 's/python -c/python3 -c/g' configure
+
+%build
+%configure --enable-docs --enable-introspection=yes --disable-gegl
+%make_build
+
+%install
+%make_install
+find %{buildroot}%{_libdir} -name '*.la' -delete -print
+
+%find_lang %{name}
+
+%ldconfig_scriptlets
+
+%files -f %{name}.lang
+%license COPYING
+%doc README.md
+%{_libdir}/libmypaint.so.0*
+%dir %{_libdir}/girepository-1.0
+%{_libdir}/girepository-1.0/MyPaint-%{major}.%{minor}.typelib
+
+%files devel
+%doc doc/build/*
+%{_libdir}/libmypaint.so
+%{_includedir}/%{name}
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libmypaint.pc
+%dir %{_datadir}/gir-1.0
+%{_datadir}/gir-1.0/MyPaint-%{major}.%{minor}.gir
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Feb 09 2022 Josef Ridky <jridky@redhat.com> - 1.6.1-7
+- add gating.yaml file
+
+* Thu Jan 20 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.1-6
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Jul 22 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.1-5
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat Jul 10 2021 Björn Esser <besser82@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.1-4
+- Rebuild for versioned symbols in json-c
+
+* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.1-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Jul 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.1-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri May 15 2020 Kalev Lember <klember@redhat.com> - 1.6.1-1
+- Update to 1.6.1
+- Tighten soname globs
+
+* Tue Apr 21 2020 Björn Esser <besser82@fedoraproject.org> - 1.5.0-2
+- Rebuild (json-c)
+
+* Wed Feb 19 2020 Kalev Lember <klember@redhat.com> - 1.5.0-1
+- Update to 1.5.0
+
+* Wed Jan 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.0-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Nov 29 2019 Kalev Lember <klember@redhat.com> - 1.4.0-2
+- Remove previous version ABI compat hack
+
+* Tue Nov 12 2019 Kalev Lember <klember@redhat.com> - 1.4.0-1
+- Update to 1.4.0
+
+* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.0-13
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Jun 13 2019 Kalev Lember <klember@redhat.com> - 1.3.0-12
+- Fix FTBFS with latest gegl04
+
+* Sat Mar 09 2019 Nils Philippsen <nils@tiptoe.de> - 1.3.0-11
+- use python3-sphinx, python3-breathe for building documentation
+
+* Fri Feb 01 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.0-10
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.0-9
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed May 02 2018 Nils Philippsen <nils@tiptoe.de> - 1.3.0-8
+- rebuild with gegl04
+
+* Tue Mar 06 2018 Björn Esser <besser82@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.0-7
+- Rebuilt for libjson-c.so.4 (json-c v0.13.1)
+
+* Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.0-6
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Dec 13 2017 Björn Esser <besser82@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.0-5
+- Rebuilt for libjson-c.so.3
+
+* Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.0-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jul 26 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.0-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Feb 10 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.0-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Jan 27 2017 Nils Philippsen <nils@tiptoe.de> - 1.3.0-1
+- version 1.3.0 final
+- conflict with mypaint < 1.3.0
+- mention pkgconfig, introspection files explicitly
+
+* Sun Jul 31 2016 Nils Philippsen <nils@tiptoe.de> - 1.3.0-0.2.beta.1
+- fix locale names 'ar_AR' -> 'ar'
+- fix build dependencies
+- fix summary and description texts
+- use current build and install macros
+- remove all .la files beneath %%_libdir
+- ship development documentation
+
+* Sun Jul 31 2016 Nils Philippsen <nils@tiptoe.de> - 1.3.0-0.1.beta.1
+- initial release of 1.3.0-beta.1