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-%{!?python_sitelib: %define python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
-
-Summary:	A toolkit for Xesam compliant services
-Name:		xesam-tools
-Version:	0.6.1
-Release:	7%{?dist}
-License:	LGPLv2
-Group:		Applications/System
-URL:		http://xesam.org/main
-Source0:	http://xesam.org/people/kamstrup/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-BuildRequires:	python-devel
-
-BuildArch:	noarch
-
-%description
-xesam-tools provides Python packages to interface with Xesam
-compliant services as well as a command line tool to use directly.
-
-It also features a framework for easily implementing xesam compliant
-servers via the xesam.server package. There are two examples bundled
-with this distribution. Namely demo/xesam-yahoo-service and
-demo/xesam-dummy-service. Both include a small header describing
-their usage.
-
-The implementation uses gobject and the Python dbus bindings for the gobject
-mainloop. There's no gui, only a command line application (xesam-tool).
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-
-%build
-%{__python} setup.py build
-
-%install
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root %{buildroot}
-
-chmod 0644 demo/xesam-yahoo-service demo/xesam-dummy-service
-
-%clean
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-
-%files
-%defattr(-, root, root, -)
-%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING README
-%doc demo/xesam-yahoo-service demo/xesam-dummy-service
-%{_bindir}/xesam-tool
-%{python_sitelib}/xesam/
-%{python_sitelib}/xesam*.egg-info
-
-%changelog
-* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.6.1-7
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Mon Feb 07 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.6.1-6
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Jul 22 2010 David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com> - 0.6.1-5
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7/MassRebuild
-
-* Mon Jul 27 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.6.1-4
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.6.1-3
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Sat Nov 29 2008 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet+rpm@gmail.com> - 0.6.1-2
-- Rebuild for Python 2.6
-
-* Mon May 12 2008 Deji Akingunola <dakingun@gmail.com> - 0.6.1-1
-- Initial packaging for Fedora.