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+/CommonMark-0.290000.tar.gz
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+Name:           perl-CommonMark
+Version:        0.290000
+Release:        2%{?dist}
+Summary:        Interface to the CommonMark C library
+License:        GPL+ or Artistic
+
+URL:            https://metacpan.org/release/CommonMark
+Source0:        https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/N/NW/NWELLNHOF/CommonMark-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+# build requirements
+BuildRequires:  cmark-devel >= 0.21.0
+BuildRequires:  gcc
+BuildRequires:  make
+BuildRequires:  perl-devel
+BuildRequires:  perl-generators
+BuildRequires:  perl-interpreter
+BuildRequires:  perl(:VERSION) >= 5.8
+BuildRequires:  perl(Devel::CheckLib)
+BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) >= 6.76
+# runtime requirements
+BuildRequires:  perl(Exporter)
+BuildRequires:  perl(XSLoader)
+BuildRequires:  perl(strict)
+BuildRequires:  perl(warnings)
+# test requirements
+BuildRequires:  perl(Encode)
+BuildRequires:  perl(Symbol)
+BuildRequires:  perl(Test::LeakTrace)
+BuildRequires:  perl(Test::More)
+BuildRequires:  perl(constant)
+Requires:       perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`/usr/bin/perl -V:version`"; echo $version))
+
+%description
+This module is a wrapper around the official CommonMark C library libcmark.
+It closely follows the original API.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n CommonMark-%{version}
+
+%build
+/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor OPTIMIZE="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" NO_PACKLIST=1
+%{make_build} %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%install
+/usr/bin/make pure_install PERL_INSTALL_ROOT=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+%{_fixperms} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*
+
+%check
+%{make_build} test
+
+%files
+%doc Changes
+%license LICENSE
+%{perl_vendorarch}/auto/*
+%{perl_vendorarch}/CommonMark*
+%{_mandir}/man3/*
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Aug 01 2019 Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel@seyman.fr> - 0.290000-2
+- Take into account review comments (#1735562)
+
+* Tue Jul 30 2019 Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel@seyman.fr> - 0.290000-1
+- Initial specfile, based on the one autogenerated by cpanspec 1.78.
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+SHA512 (CommonMark-0.290000.tar.gz) = 6fd7c50ccc1e5dcf4a8d4f550142812ec0d722bc1f2e9d83faa1b05a2bebf055a15e8e77f131b79617014de1d254ede0061f5be7d3e3fe673a3ac748cadb1086