diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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index 0000000..38c5806
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/async-channel-1.6.1.crate
diff --git a/async-channel-fix-metadata.patch b/async-channel-fix-metadata.patch
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index 0000000..9fa6933
--- /dev/null
+++ b/async-channel-fix-metadata.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
+--- a/Cargo.toml	1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
++++ b/Cargo.toml	2021-05-06 14:39:01.647519493 -0700
+@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@
+ 
+ [dependencies.futures-core]
+ version = "0.3.5"
+-[dev-dependencies.blocking]
+-version = "1"
+ 
+ [dev-dependencies.easy-parallel]
+ version = "3.1.0"
diff --git a/rust-async-channel.spec b/rust-async-channel.spec
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index 0000000..ccde98c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust-async-channel.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+# Generated by rust2rpm 16
+%bcond_without check
+%global debug_package %{nil}
+
+%global crate async-channel
+
+Name:           rust-%{crate}
+Version:        1.6.1
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        Async multi-producer multi-consumer channel
+
+# Upstream license specification: Apache-2.0 OR MIT
+License:        ASL 2.0 or MIT
+URL:            https://crates.io/crates/async-channel
+Source:         %{crates_source}
+# Break circular dependency with blocking
+Patch0:         async-channel-fix-metadata.patch
+
+ExclusiveArch:  %{rust_arches}
+%if %{__cargo_skip_build}
+BuildArch:      noarch
+%endif
+
+BuildRequires:  rust-packaging
+
+%global _description %{expand:
+Async multi-producer multi-consumer channel.}
+
+%description %{_description}
+
+%package        devel
+Summary:        %{summary}
+BuildArch:      noarch
+
+%description    devel %{_description}
+
+This package contains library source intended for building other packages
+which use "%{crate}" crate.
+
+%files          devel
+%license LICENSE
+%doc README.md
+%{cargo_registry}/%{crate}-%{version_no_tilde}/
+
+%package     -n %{name}+default-devel
+Summary:        %{summary}
+BuildArch:      noarch
+
+%description -n %{name}+default-devel %{_description}
+
+This package contains library source intended for building other packages
+which use "default" feature of "%{crate}" crate.
+
+%files       -n %{name}+default-devel
+%ghost %{cargo_registry}/%{crate}-%{version_no_tilde}/Cargo.toml
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -n %{crate}-%{version_no_tilde} -p1
+%cargo_prep
+
+%generate_buildrequires
+%cargo_generate_buildrequires
+
+%build
+%cargo_build
+
+%install
+%cargo_install
+
+%if %{with check}
+%check
+%cargo_test
+%endif
+
+%changelog
+* Thu May 06 13:24:45 PDT 2021 Davide Cavalca <dcavalca@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.1-1
+- Initial package
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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index 0000000..2e56247
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SHA512 (async-channel-1.6.1.crate) = 797b1f5b4c07853f78670e62b67fb787c329ffa2c89475a3767a963d524a69dce082cc7f3a2878d9c990f00ae2d9cd7e0d21743fc4186769c238467bdb20c65e