diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/results_*
+/*.src.rpm
+
+/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.3.0.tar.gz
+/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.0.tar.gz
+/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.1.tar.gz
+/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.2.tar.gz
+/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.3.tar.gz
+/wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.4.tar.gz
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
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--- a/dead.package
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-remove package (temporarily) due to unresolved issues with GNOME 43
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+++ b/sources
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+SHA512 (wingpanel-applications-menu-2.4.4.tar.gz) = 939447d55884a921c99fa42504be030afc6ade526f12f46cfcbb14e36d16cfc4dbe7f50baf92a72fcf2568d1b3cd20f8dbea3b348b9a031dfdd1d28b6115a691
diff --git a/wingpanel-applications-menu.rpmlintrc b/wingpanel-applications-menu.rpmlintrc
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+++ b/wingpanel-applications-menu.rpmlintrc
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+# false positives
+addFilter("E: invalid-lc-messages-dir /usr/share/locale/bh*")
+addFilter("E: invalid-lc-messages-dir /usr/share/locale/mo*")
diff --git a/wingpanel-applications-menu.spec b/wingpanel-applications-menu.spec
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+%global __provides_exclude_from ^%{_libdir}/wingpanel/.*\\.so$
+
+%global srcname applications-menu
+%global appname io.elementary.desktop.wingpanel.applications-menu
+
+Name:           wingpanel-applications-menu
+Summary:        Lightweight and stylish app launcher
+Version:        2.4.4
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+License:        GPLv3+
+
+URL:            https://github.com/elementary/%{srcname}
+Source0:        %{url}/archive/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires:  cmake
+BuildRequires:  gcc
+BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
+BuildRequires:  gettext
+BuildRequires:  vala >= 0.32.1
+
+BuildRequires:  appstream-vala
+
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(appstream) >= 0.10.0
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gee-0.8)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(glib-2.0)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(granite) >= 0.5
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gtk+-3.0) >= 3.12.0
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(json-glib-1.0)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libgnome-menu-3.0)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libsoup-2.4)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(plank) >= 0.10.9
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(switchboard-2.0)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(unity) >= 4.0.0
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(wingpanel-2.0) >= 2.1.0
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(zeitgeist-2.0)
+
+Requires:       redhat-menus
+
+Requires:       wingpanel%{?_isa}
+Supplements:    wingpanel%{?_isa}
+
+Provides:       slingshot-launcher = %{version}-%{release}
+Obsoletes:      slingshot-launcher < 2.2.0-8
+
+
+%description
+The lightweight and stylish app launcher from elementary.
+
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -n %{srcname}-%{version} -p1
+
+
+%build
+mkdir build && pushd build
+%cmake ..
+%make_build
+popd
+
+
+%install
+pushd build
+%make_install
+popd
+
+%find_lang slingshot
+
+
+%files -f slingshot.lang
+%doc README.md
+%license COPYING
+
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/xdg/menus/pantheon-applications.menu
+
+%{_libdir}/wingpanel/libslingshot.so
+
+%{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas/%{appname}.gschema.xml
+
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Aug 23 2019 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.4.4-1
+- Update to version 2.4.4.
+
+* Fri May 17 2019 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.4.3-1
+- Update to version 2.4.3.
+
+* Tue Jan 22 2019 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.4.2-1
+- Update to version 2.4.2.
+
+* Sat Dec 08 2018 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.4.1-1
+- Update to version 2.4.1.
+- Drop explicit dependency on zeitgeist.
+
+* Tue Sep 18 2018 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.4.0-1
+- Update to version 2.4.0.
+
+* Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.3.0-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sun Jul 08 2018 Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@gmail.com> - 2.3.0-1
+- Initial package renamed from slingshot-launcher.
+