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 # libextractor
 
+Libextractor is a library used to extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type.
+It is designed to use helper-libraries to perform the actual extraction, and to be trivially extendable by linking against external extractors for additional file types.
+
diff --git a/libextractor.spec b/libextractor.spec
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+Name:          libextractor
+Version:       1.2
+Release:       1mamba
+Summary:       A library used to extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type
+Group:         System/Libraries
+Vendor:        openmamba
+Distribution:  openmamba
+Packager:      Aleph0 <aleph0@openmamba.org>
+URL:           http://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/
+Source:        http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-%{version}.tar.gz
+License:       LGPL
+BuildRequires: libz-devel
+BuildRequires: libbzip2-devel
+BuildRequires: mpeg2dec-devel
+BuildRequires: libvorbis-devel
+BuildRequires: gettext-devel
+BuildRequires: pkgconfig
+BuildRequires: libglib-devel
+BuildRequires: libgtk-devel
+BuildRequires: libqt-devel
+BuildRequires: libgsf-devel
+Requires(post): %{__install_info}
+Requires(preun): %{__install_info}
+BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+%description
+Libextractor is a library used to extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type.
+It is designed to use helper-libraries to perform the actual extraction, and to be trivially extendable by linking against external extractors for additional file types.
+
+%package devel
+Group:         Development/Libraries
+Summary:       Static libraries and headers for %{name}
+Requires:      %{name} = %{?epoch:%epoch:}%{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+Libextractor is a library used to extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type.
+It is designed to use helper-libraries to perform the actual extraction, and to be trivially extendable by linking against external extractors for additional file types.
+
+This package contains static libraries and header files need for development.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+%configure
+%make
+
+%install
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+%makeinstall
+
+%find_lang %{name}
+
+%clean
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+
+%post
+/sbin/ldconfig
+%install_info %{name}.info
+exit 0
+
+%preun
+%uninstall_info %{name}.info
+exit 0
+
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files -f %{name}.lang
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_bindir}/extract
+%{_libdir}/libextractor.so.*
+%{_libdir}/libextractor_common.so.*
+%dir %{_libdir}/libextractor
+%{_libdir}/libextractor/libextractor_*.a
+%{_libdir}/libextractor/libextractor_*.la
+%{_libdir}/libextractor/libextractor_*.so
+%{_infodir}/%{name}.info.*
+%{_mandir}/man1/extract.*
+%doc AUTHORS COPYING
+
+%files devel
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_includedir}/*.h
+%{_libdir}/libextractor.a
+%{_libdir}/libextractor.la
+%{_libdir}/libextractor.so
+%{_libdir}/libextractor_common.a
+%{_libdir}/libextractor_common.la
+%{_libdir}/libextractor_common.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libextractor.pc
+%{_mandir}/man3/libextractor.*
+%doc ChangeLog NEWS README TODO
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Oct 25 2013 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 1.2-1mamba
+- automatic update by autodist
+
+* Thu Jul 04 2013 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 1.1-1mamba
+- automatic version update by autodist
+
+* Sat Jan 26 2013 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 1.0.1-1mamba
+- update to 1.0.1
+
+* Mon Jul 16 2007 Aleph0 <aleph0@openmamba.org> 0.5.18-1mamba
+- package created by autospec