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+SOURCES/podman-4.0.0.tar.gz
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+30c16c01a9dcafb0077f83c854c027190891336f SOURCES/podman-4.0.0.tar.gz
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+Name: python-podman
+Version: 4.0.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
+Summary: RESTful API for Podman
+License: ASL 2.0
+URL: https://github.com/containers/podman-py
+Source0: %{url}/releases/download/v%{version}/podman-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildArch: noarch
+
+%description
+%{name} is a library of bindings to use the RESTful API for Podman.
+
+%package -n python%{python3_pkgversion}-podman
+BuildRequires: python%{python3_pkgversion}-devel
+BuildRequires: python%{python3_pkgversion}-rpm-macros
+%if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 9
+BuildRequires: python%{python3_pkgversion}-toml
+Requires: python%{python3_pkgversion}-toml
+%else
+BuildRequires: python%{python3_pkgversion}-pytoml
+Requires: python%{python3_pkgversion}-pytoml
+%endif
+BuildRequires: python%{python3_pkgversion}-pyxdg
+BuildRequires: python%{python3_pkgversion}-requests
+BuildRequires: python%{python3_pkgversion}-setuptools
+BuildRequires: git-core
+Requires: python%{python3_pkgversion}-pyxdg
+Requires: python%{python3_pkgversion}-requests
+Provides: podman-py = %{version}-%{release}
+Summary: %{summary}
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide python%{python3_pkgversion}-podman}
+
+%description -n python%{python3_pkgversion}-podman
+%{name} is a library of bindings to use the RESTful API for Podman.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -Sgit_am -n podman-%{version}
+
+%build
+%py3_build
+
+%install
+%py3_install
+
+%files -n python3-podman
+%license LICENSE
+%doc README.md
+%{python3_sitelib}/podman/*
+%{python3_sitelib}/podman-*/*
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Feb 28 2022 Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5@redhat.com> - 4.0.0-1
+- bump to v4.0.0
+- Related: #2001445
+
+* Wed Sep 29 2021 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> - 3.2.1-4
+- do not depend on pyproject-rpm-macros - not present in RHEL8
+- Related: #2001445
+
+* Wed Jul 28 2021 Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5@fedoraproject.org> - 3.2.0-2
+- depend on python3-requests
+- Resolves: #1978415 - initial upload to rhel
+
+* Wed Jul 28 2021 Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5@fedoraproject.org> - 3.2.0-1
+- Bump to v3.2.0
+
+* Tue May 04 2021 Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5@fedoraproject.org> - 3.1.2.4-1
+- Initial package
+