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+# Template build for 'birdie'.
+pkgname=birdie
+version=1.1
+revision=1
+build_style=cmake
+short_desc="A Twitter client for Linux"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config intltool cmake"
+maintainer="Enno Boland <eb@s01.de>"
+license="GPLv3"
+homepage="http://birdieapp.github.io/"
+distfiles="https://github.com/birdieapp/birdie/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum="c9b652b157f09241197c859d2c77f14becaf1b1031b1d2140dcc052a6227a338"
+makedepends=" dbus-glib-devel gtk+3-devel gtksourceview-devel json-glib-devel
+ libXtst-devel libcanberra-devel libgee-devel libnotify-devel libpurple-devel
+ rest-devel sqlite-devel vala-devel webkitgtk-devel"
+depends="hicolor-icon-theme desktop-file-utils"