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 # ctags
 
+Exuberant Ctags generates an index (or tag) file of language objects found in source files for many popular programming languages.
+This index makes it easy for text editors and other tools to locate the indexed items.
+Exuberant Ctags improves on traditional ctags because of its multilanguage support, its ability for the user to define new languages searched by regular expressions, and its ability to generate emacs-style TAGS files.
+
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+Name:          ctags
+Version:       r20191026.git
+Release:       1mamba
+Summary:       A multi-language source code indexing tool
+Group:         Development/Tools
+Vendor:        openmamba
+Distribution:  openmamba
+Packager:      Stefano Cotta Ramusino <stefano.cotta@openmamba.org>
+URL:           http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
+Source:        https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags.git/master/ctags-%{version}.tar.bz2
+License:       GPL
+BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+%description
+Exuberant Ctags generates an index (or tag) file of language objects found in source files for many popular programming languages.
+This index makes it easy for text editors and other tools to locate the indexed items.
+Exuberant Ctags improves on traditional ctags because of its multilanguage support, its ability for the user to define new languages searched by regular expressions, and its ability to generate emacs-style TAGS files.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+./autogen.sh
+
+%build
+%configure
+%make
+
+%install
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+%makeoldinstall
+
+%clean
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_bindir}/%{name}
+%{_bindir}/readtags
+%{_mandir}/man1/*
+%{_mandir}/man5/tags.5*
+%{_mandir}/man7/ctags-incompatibilities.7*
+%{_mandir}/man7/ctags-optlib.7*
+%doc COPYING
+
+%changelog
+* Sat Oct 26 2019 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> r20191026.git-1mamba
+- update to r20191026.git
+
+* Wed Jul 31 2013 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 5.8-2mamba
+- automatic rebuild by autodist
+
+* Tue Jul 14 2009 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 5.8-1mamba
+- automatic update by autodist
+
+* Sun Oct 28 2007 Stefano Cotta Ramusino <stefano.cotta@openmamba.org> 5.7-1mamba
+- package created by autospec