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+SUMMARY = "Geary is an email application built around conversations, for the GNOME 3 desktop."
+SECTION = "network"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2a2244d5a13871ad950c55877546a6a2"
+
+DEPENDS = " \
+	appstream-glib \
+	cairo \
+	enchant2 \
+	evolution-data-server \
+	folks \
+	gcr \
+	gmime \
+	gnome-online-accounts \
+	gsound \
+	gspell \
+	gtk+3 \
+	icu \
+	iso-codes \
+	json-glib \
+	libhandy \
+	libical \
+	libpeas \
+	libsecret \
+	libstemmer \
+	libxml2 \
+	sqlite3 \
+	webkitgtk \
+"
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "gnome-keyring"
+
+inherit meson pkgconfig mime-xdg gtk-icon-cache gobject-introspection vala
+
+SRC_URI = " \
+	git://github.com/GNOME/geary.git;nobranch=1;protocol=https \
+"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+SRCREV = "gnome-${PV}"
+
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "gobject-introspection-data"
+
+GIR_MESON_OPTION = ""
+EXTRA_OEMESON = "-Dprofile=release"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG[libunwind] = "-Dlibunwind=enabled,-Dlibunwind=disabled,libunwind"
+PACKAGECONFIG[tnef] = "-Dtnef=enabled,-Dtnef=disabled,libytnef"
+PACKAGECONFIG[valadoc] = "-Dvaladoc=enabled,-Dvaladoc=disabled"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
+
+FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}"
+