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 # botan2
 
+Botan (Japanese for peony flower) is a C++ cryptography library released under the permissive Simplified BSD license.
+
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+Name:          botan2
+Version:       2.19.3
+Release:       3mamba
+Summary:       A C++ cryptography library released under the permissive Simplified BSD license
+Group:         System/Libraries
+Vendor:        openmamba
+Distribution:  openmamba
+Packager:      Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it>
+URL:           https://github.com/randombit/botan
+Source:        https://github.com/randombit/botan.git/%{version}/botan-%{version}.tar.bz2
+License:       BSD
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-BEGIN
+BuildRequires: glibc-devel
+BuildRequires: libgcc
+BuildRequires: libpython310-devel
+BuildRequires: libstdc++6-devel
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-END
+Requires:      lib%{name} = %{?epoch:%epoch:}%{version}-%{release}
+
+%description
+Botan (Japanese for peony flower) is a C++ cryptography library released under the permissive Simplified BSD license.
+
+%package -n lib%{name}
+Group:         System/Libraries
+Summary:       Shared libraries for %{name}
+
+%description -n lib%{name}
+This package contains shared libraries for %{name}.
+
+%package -n lib%{name}-devel
+Group:         Development/Libraries
+Summary:       Development files for %{name}
+Requires:      lib%{name} = %{?epoch:%epoch:}%{version}-%{release}
+Requires:      pkg-config
+
+%description -n lib%{name}-devel
+This package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use %{name}.
+
+%debug_package
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n botan-%{version}
+
+%build
+%{__python310} configure.py \
+   --prefix=%{_prefix} \
+   --libdir=%{_libdir}
+
+%make
+
+%install
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+%makeinstall
+
+%clean
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+
+%post -n lib%{name} -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -n lib%{name} -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_bindir}/botan
+%{_mandir}/man1/botan.1*
+
+%files -n lib%{name}
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_libdir}/libbotan-2.so.*
+%{python310_sitearch}/botan2.py
+%doc license.txt
+
+%files -n lib%{name}-devel
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%dir %{_includedir}/botan-2
+%dir %{_includedir}/botan-2/botan
+%{_includedir}/botan-2/botan/*.h
+%{_libdir}/libbotan-2.a
+%{_libdir}/libbotan-2.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/botan-2.pc
+%dir %{_docdir}/botan-%{version}
+%{_docdir}/botan-%{version}/*.txt
+%dir %{_docdir}/botan-%{version}/handbook
+%dir %{_docdir}/botan-%{version}/handbook/.doctrees
+%{_docdir}/botan-%{version}/handbook/*
+%{_docdir}/botan-%{version}/handbook/.doctrees/*
+%{_docdir}/botan-%{version}/handbook/.buildinfo
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Jul 21 2023 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 2.19.3-3mamba
+- rebuilt
+
+* Thu May 25 2023 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 2.19.3-2mamba
+- legacy package
+
+* Thu Nov 17 2022 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 2.19.3-1mamba
+- automatic version update by autodist
+
+* Sat Jun 04 2022 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 2.19.2-1mamba
+- automatic version update by autodist
+
+* Sun Jan 23 2022 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 2.19.1-1mamba
+- automatic version update by autodist
+
+* Thu Jan 20 2022 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 2.19.0-1mamba
+- automatic version update by autodist
+
+* Tue Oct 26 2021 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 2.18.2-1mamba
+- automatic version update by autodist
+
+* Mon May 10 2021 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 2.18.1-1mamba
+- automatic version update by autodist
+
+* Fri Apr 16 2021 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 2.18.0-1mamba
+- automatic version update by autodist
+
+* Wed Mar 24 2021 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 2.17.3-1mamba
+- package created using the webbuild interface