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+SOURCES/protobuf-c-1.0.2.tar.gz
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-The master branch has no content
-
-Look at the c7 branch if you are working with CentOS-7, or the c4/c5/c6 branch for CentOS-4, 5 or 6
-If you find this file in a distro specific branch, it means that no content has been checked in yet
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+Name:           protobuf-c
+Version:        1.0.2
+Release:        2%{?dist}
+Summary:        C bindings for Google's Protocol Buffers
+
+
+Group:          System Environment/Libraries
+License:        BSD
+URL:            https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c
+Source0:        https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c/releases/download/v%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires:  protobuf-devel
+
+%description
+Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet
+extensible format. This package provides a code generator and run-time
+libraries to use Protocol Buffers from pure C (not C++).
+
+%package compiler
+Summary: Protocol Buffers C compiler
+Group: Development/Libraries
+Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description compiler
+This package contains a modified version of the Protocol Buffers
+compiler for the C programming language called protoc-c.
+
+%package devel
+Summary:        Protocol Buffers C headers and libraries
+Group:          Development/Libraries
+Requires:       %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires:       %{name}-compiler = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+This package contains protobuf-c headers and libraries.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+%configure --disable-static
+# disabled parallel build due to https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c/issues/156
+make
+
+%check
+make check
+
+%install
+make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libprotobuf-c.la
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%{_libdir}/libprotobuf-c.so.*
+%doc TODO LICENSE ChangeLog
+
+%files compiler
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%{_bindir}/protoc-c
+
+%files devel
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%dir %{_includedir}/google
+%{_includedir}/protobuf-c
+%{_includedir}/google/protobuf-c
+%{_libdir}/libprotobuf-c.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libprotobuf-c.pc
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Aug 17 2015 Adrian Reber <areber@redhat.com> - 1.0.2-2
+- remove 'ExcludeArch' hack
+
+* Fri Jul 17 2015 Adrian Reber <areber@redhat.com> - 1.0.2-1
+- new upstream release
+- split off protoc-c into protobuf-c-compiler to reduce runtime
+  dependencies of the main package
+
+* Wed Aug 06 2014 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> - 1.0.1-1
+- new upstream release
+
+* Mon Aug 04 2014 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> - 1.0.0-1
+- new upstream release (#1126116)
+
+* Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.15-9
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sun Aug 04 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.15-8
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon Mar 11 2013 David Robinson <zxvdr.au@gmail.com> - 0.15-7
+- rebuilt for protobuf-2.5.0
+
+* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.15-6
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat Jul 21 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.15-5
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.15-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sun Jun 12 2011 David Robinson <zxvdr.au@gmail.com> - 0.15-3
+- rebuilt for protobuf-2.4.1
+
+* Sun Apr 24 2011 David Robinson <zxvdr.au@gmail.com> - 0.15-2
+- Spec file cleanup
+
+* Wed Apr 20 2011 David Robinson <zxvdr.au@gmail.com> - 0.15-1
+- New upstream release
+- Spec file cleanup
+
+* Mon Jan 17 2011 Bobby Powers <bobby@laptop.org> - 0.14-1
+- New upstream release
+- Removed -devel dependency on protobuf-devel
+- Small specfile cleanups
+
+* Wed May 19 2010 David Robinson <zxvdr.au@gmail.com> - 0.13-2
+- Spec file cleanup
+
+* Wed May 19 2010 David Robinson <zxvdr.au@gmail.com> - 0.13-1
+- Initial packaging