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+SUMMARY = "The sd-bus library, extracted from systemd."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/emersion/basu.git"
+SECTION = "base"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.LGPL2.1;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/emersion/basu.git;protocol=https"
+
+DEPENDS += "gperf-native libcap"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+PV = "0.2.0"
+SRCREV = "v${PV}"
+
+inherit meson
+
+EXTRA_OEMESON += "--buildtype release"
+